Depth Studies: Illustrated Anatomies from Vesalius to Vicq d’Azyr

March 17–June 7, 1992

Organized by Professor Barbara Stafford of the University of Chicago's Department of Art and her graduate seminar, this exhibition of twenty-nine anatomy texts from the University of Chicago Library explored the diverse ways in which anatomy text illustrators from the 16th to the 20th centuries fathomed the realms of biology and physiology.

Small manuals and large folios alike worked as narratives to explain certain relationships between the body and mind and to establish links between the physical and metaphysical. The exhibition was mounted in conjunction with the University of Chicago Centennial Conference, "Imaging the Body: Art and Science in Modern Culture" (2-4 April 1992).