The Eyes Have It

A new exhibit opening October 9th at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland:

“Who we are beneath the skin amazes and scares us, entertains, repels, fascinates, inspires. Since 1500 A.D., when illustrations of human anatomy first began appearing in print, artists have employed fantastic settings, bizarre juxtapositions, antic poses, intense colors, and fanciful metaphors, to display scientific knowledge of the body and its interior–a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self. Drawn largely from the Library’s collections, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most spectacular moments, from 1500 to the present.“