'The Skeleton Contemplates Mortality', 1543. By Andreas Vesalius (1514-64). Andreas Vesalius (1514-64) was a 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body).

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