Muriel McCarthy selects two related engravings from the current medical exhibition at Marsh’s Library, Dublin.
In our current exhibition, Hippocrates Revived, there are two splendid large folios. The first, by the Dutch doctor Govard Bidloo (1649–1713), is entitled Anatomia humani corporis. Published in Amsterdam in 1685, this superb book contains 105 illustrations by the famous artist Gérard de Lairesse (1640–1711). The plates by Lairesse show the human figure both in living stances and as dissected corpses. On the page opposite each illustration there is a brief commentary in which Bidloo explains the illustration.
Janet Mullarney’s sculptures perform as metaphors, not portraits, writes Cliodhna Shaffrey