Four Atlases of Myology by Van Horne and Sagemolen Multidisciplinary Approach to Unpublished Drawings from the Dutch Golden Age
Abstract
In June 2016, four large atlases comprising two hundred and fifty anatomical drawings which were made around 1654-1660 in Leiden (Netherlands) were identified at the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé.
Made by the painter Marten Sagemolen (ca. 1620-1669) under the direction of the anatomist Johannes van Horne (1621-1670), they systematically describe the muscles of man. This extensive collection had been lost since the mid-18th century.
The albums entered the collections of the École de santé in 1796, along with the magnificent drawings by the painter Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) for the anatomy of Govard Bidloo (1649-1713), and they have remained in the medical library at 12, rue de l'École-de-médecine, today called BIU Santé médecine, which now belongs to Université Paris Cité. Purchased as an anonymous lot accompanying Lairesse's masterpiece, the albums had not been successfully examined until 2016.
The great rarity of this collection and the surprise of its identification aroused curiosity. After initial documentation and digitisation work by the BIU Santé's Health History Department, a restoration and study project was carried out with the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France. It was followed by an international conference on 18 and 19 June 2021, of which this volume provides the proceedings, and an exhibition of the atlases at the Musée d'histoire de la médecine d'Université Paris Cité, from 15 November 2021 to Saturday 15 January 2022.
Keywords
Johannes Van Horne, Martinus Saeghmolen, Human anatomy, Medical Illustration, Art & Medecine, XVIIth centuryChapters
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Ms 27 to 30 of the BIU Santé: a guided tour
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A Private Anatomical Atlas?The Myological Illustrations of Johannes van Horne and Martin Sagemolen
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The Myologia by Saeghemolen and Van Horne in context: Art, science and religion at Leiden University, ca. 1660
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Jan van Horne through the correspondence of Guy Patin: discovering the ducts of chyle
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The material study of the corpus of drawings by Marten Sagemolen and their conservation-restoration interventions
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Dissection and representation of muscles in Vesalius, Canano, Sagemolen
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Van Horne and Galien's De ossibus
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Nicolaus Steno's Myology in Light of Johannes van Horne's Muscle Atlas
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Girolamo Fabrici d’Acquapendente (Acquapendente, 1533 – Padoue, 1619): Theatrum totius animalis fabricae kept at the Biblioteca nazionale Marciana de Venise
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The unpublished drawings planned for the Anatomical Atlas of Van Horne and Sagemolen or Fabricius ab Aquapente redivivus: from Padua to Leiden, the question of movement, its teaching and its representation
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Collecting the body: William Hunter’s collection of anatomical drawings and prints in University of Glasgow Library Special Collections
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