- Jacques Gamelin
. On the death of his father, which left Jacques a wealthy man, he returned to Toulouse where he taught at the Académie. He is most known today for his paintings and engravings of battle scenes, which can be found in art museums throughout France. Jacques Gamelin died in Carcassonne on October 12, 1803.
When Jacques Gamelin returned to France after his father's death, he undertook his great work, "Nouveau receuil d'ostéologie et de myologie", most likely funding its publication using some of his great inheritance. The work is known for its display of both talent and imagination, with striking scenes of the
Resurrection , theCrucifixion , and skeletons at play. Aside from the full-page copperplate illustrations by Gamelin and the engraverLavalée , the work contains a number of intriguing vignettes on the title pages and elsewhere, which show battle scenes, visitations by death on unsuspecting revelers, and the anatomical artist's studio.References
* "Dictionnaire de biographie française." (Paris: Librairie Letouzey et ané, 1933-). Vol. XV, col. 309-310.
* "Morton's Medical Bibliography (Garrison and Morton)." Ed. by Jeremy Norman. 5th ed. (Aldershot, Hants.: Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower Pub. Co., 1991). No. 401.1.
External links
* [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/gamelin_home.html Jacques Gamelin: "Nouveau receuil d'ostéologie et de myologie dessiné après nature … pour l'utilité des sciences et des arts." (Toulouse, 1779)] . Selected pages scanned from the original work. Historical Anatomies on the Web. US National Library of Medicine.
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