JULIUS PLACENTINUS CASSERIUS

EXPANDED BY PHYSICIANS AND ARTISTS

The present edition of 1656 is the first collection of plates by Casserius written, at least in part, in German. It appeared decades after the death of the author in Frankfurt am Main.

The core consists of 110 anatomical plates, of which only a part, however, come from Casserius himself. Casserius had worked for 16 years on his anatomy atlas. He did not live to see it printed. His student, Adrianus Spigelius, who followed Casserius in professorship in Padua, also died before he could get the work printed. He did, however, make provision in his will designating the physician and artist Daniel Bucretius (Rindfleisch) as the publisher. Bucretius expanded the 77 copper plates from the estate of Casserius with 20 additional plates. These were implemented by Tintoretto's student Odoabdo Fialetti and the engraver Francesco Valegio. In the present edition, four additional male full body figures originate with the engraver Andreas Frölich.