ABOUT
THE PROJECT
Paolo
Mascagni's Anatomia Universa consists of 88 plates. Forty-four
are hand-colored lithographs of anatomical preparations and 44 are
outline plates containing nomenclature for identifying the anatomical
parts in an accompanying volume of text. The plates are so large that
the text block has never been bound and is stored in a large book-shaped
wooden box especially constructed for that purpose. Each plate is
99 cm x 72 cm and the image itself measures 72 cm x 53 cm. The colored
plates were photographed during the 1980s on high quality 35-mm color
film from which 2x2 slides were made. In 1999 the 44 slides were scanned
at high resolution directly into Adobe Photoshop using a Polaroid
SprintScan scanner and archived at three resolutions on a CD-ROM.
The
web site was designed and developed by Gek Choo Yeo, a former Information
Commons Graduate Consultant who received her Master of Fine Arts degree
(printmaking and graphic design) from The University of Iowa in 2000.
Richard Eimas, Curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room, provided
input on the site's organization.
Tim
Bryant, an Information Commons Graduate Consultant studying Library
and Information Science, produced the site's QuickTime VR (QTVR) components,
which add the ability to zoom in and pan across images for more detailed
viewing. He also greatly improved the site's internal structure and
navigation. The QTVR section of the project was coordinated by Scott
Fiddelke, Digital Media Project Manager, and is based on a technique
developed by Jim Duncan, Coordinator, Information Commons & Electronic
Services.
