The Anatomical Man
The Limbourg Brothers (Herman, Paul & Jean de Limbourg); later folios completed by Jean Colombe, c. 1412–1416
$123
Print check at 11 x 14 in: 152 dpi, good. Trimmed 2% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A single nude figure appears twice, front-facing and turned away, standing inside a mandorla of gold stars, surrounded by the twelve zodiac signs and lines connecting each sign to the body part medieval medicine believed it governed — Aries to the head, Pisces to the feet, and so on through the whole anatomy. This diagram, known as melothesia, was a genuinely functional medical tool: physicians consulted the zodiac before bleeding or treating a given part of the body, avoiding a sign's "ruled" organ while it held astrological dominance. It is the most purely scientific page the Limbourg workshop ever produced, standing apart from the calendar's pastoral and courtly scenes as a window into how the medieval mind fused astronomy, medicine, and theology into a single coherent, gold-lit system.
- Maker
- The Limbourg Brothers (Herman, Paul & Jean de Limbourg); later folios completed by Jean Colombe
- Date
- c. 1412–1416
- Medium of the original
- Illuminated manuscript
- Original held by
- Musée Condé, Chantilly
- Credit
- Musée Condé, Chantilly · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00918
| Picture | 11 x 14 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 12.6 x 15.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 209 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.8% |
| 11 x 14 in | 152 | Good | Trimmed 2% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 136 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 104 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 54 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,677 x 2,179 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 52, lights 221 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 2.96
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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