History of Medicine
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Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams...
Amsterdam, 1690. Copperplate engraving with etching. National Library of Medicine
Gérard de Lairesse
On some pages, de Lairesse commingles body parts with objects taken from everyday life, a variation on the still life, a popular genre of northern European painting that often contained skulls and other allusions to human mortality.