# Portrait of Andreas Vesalius [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TIZIANO Vecellio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 130 x 98 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Andreas Vesalius c. 1545 Oil on canvas, 130 x 98 cm Galleria Palatina \(Palazzo Pitti\), Florence Andreas Vesalius was a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the book on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica \(On the Fabric of the Human Body\). In this portrait, painted by the workshop of Titian, the radical anatomist and lecturer probably <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/v/vesalius/0title.html'\)" HREF="/html/v/vesalius/0title.html">holds his own book,</A> published in 1543 and illustrated by a student of Titian. ## Related artworks - [A Knight of Malta]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Annunciation]() - [Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle \(detail\)]() - [Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()