The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. At times both beautiful and repulsive, illustrated anatomy continues to hold our interest today, and is frequently referenced in popular culture.

When it comes to style, what Pierre and Charles were wearing the day Alex and I visited (pictured top) shows the elegant yet practical aesthetic quite well. I read this shortly after reading Flesh and Bones from Getty Publications and together these books offered a well-rounded look at the art of the human body through the ages.The second edition was released online by FIPAT in 2019 and approved and adopted by the IFAA General Assembly in 2020. Her work--which includes books, exhibitions, programming, and public speaking--seeks to explore the intersections of art and medicine, death and culture, science and metaphysics, and the objective and subjective.

The partnership led to an expansion of the Anatomica ethos to include more American styles (Teramoto’s passion) and more Japanese manufacturing. There’s a fine line between the horrible and the sublime, and Joanna Ebenstein’s Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy walks it.She traces here lineage back to Judah Loew ben Bezalel, legendary creator of The Golem in 16th century Prague.