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Sent: 15 March 2003 05:41
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Subject: Online Anatomy Plates of Pietro da Cortona
The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa
has recently completed a project that allows a series of early 17th
century anatomical images to be viewed via the Web. Pietro da
Cortona, a noted Italian painter and architect of the high baroque
renaissance fashioned a superb series of 27 drawings around 1618 that
were later expertly engraved by Luca Ciamberlano. The plates lay
unpublished for more than a century until assembled into an atlas and
printed in 1741 as Tabulae Anatomicae. The John Martin Rare Book Room
at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences owns a well-preserved
copy of the work and recently, the images were scanned at high
resolution by staff members of the Information Commons for placement
on the World Wide Web.
The images can be viewed in varying degrees of magnification so that
the viewer can gain an appreciation of the close-up beauty and
artistry of the original drawings. The new offering is the second of
a series of images to be mounted in this fashion, the first being the
magnificent color lithographs of Mascagni's Anatomia Universa. The
web site was designed and developed by Christy Stevens, an
Information Commons Graduate Assistant studying Library and
Information Science at the University of Iowa. Other contributors to
the development of the site include Ed Holtum, Head of the John
Martin Rare Book Room; Scott Fiddelke, Digital Media Project Manager;
and Jim Duncan, Coordinator, Information Commons & Electronic
Services.
You may view the web site at:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/rbr/imaging/cortona/
You may be required to download a small plug-in to view the images.
Joy Reidenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY 10029-6574 USA
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