A diagram depicting the muscles in the human body from the set of books 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem' Latin for 'On the fabric of the human body in seven books'.
A pregnant female, standing with one arm raised above her head: the top of the image shows the head, trunk and upper limbs, and the lower half depicts the lower limbs and the contents of the thorax and abdomen.
The hermaphrodite (a person both male and female) was designed for the decoration of the Hall of Constantine at the Vatican. The yoke on the shoulders refers to the motto of Pope Leo X, who commissioned the work: ‘For my yoke is easy and my burden is…