From head to toe and everywhere in between, The Visible Human Database is a resource for anatomical information for researchers, educators, medical professionals, and the general public. It draws on transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals. This coronal image was compiled by the Center for Human Simulation at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center for the US National Librariy of Medicine. You can browse The Visible Human Female Database on the Web, where this clickable image links to the source transverse images.

Science for Art?s Sake

Interior Cartography No.9
Mixed media, 8" x 10"
by Tatiana Parcero,
? Tatiana Parcero, 1995
(click on image to see more)

Mapping inner contours onto outer ones, photographer Tatiana Porcero explores the human body in this Inner Cartography series. Her imagery has a visceral quality found in Mexican religious icons and the paintings of Frida Kahlo. She is one of over a dozen artists featured at The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York Virtual Gallery, a non-profit branch of the Mexican Consulate in New York working to further a greater awareness of Mexico?s rich cultural legacy.

Previously Featured Art

Hydromantes shastae, by Randy Schmieder and

Rat-King (Rattenkonig) by Katharina Fritsch

(Issue 11 ? posted June 27, 1997)

Porphyra columbina, from The Protist Image Data Gallery and

Binary worms by Jim Pallas

(Issue 10 ? posted June 13, 1997)

Deoxyribonuclease I from The Protein Data Bank and

Clip from a light sculpture by Paul Freidlander

(Issue 9 ? posted May 30, 1997)

Einstein through a bee's eye by Andrew Giger and

Sequential Molecules, 1995 by Catherine Wagner

(Issue 8 ? posted May 16, 1997)

Polio Virus, Type 1 by Jean-Yves Sgro and Untitled, by Philip Pirolo

(Issue 7 ? posted May 2, 1997)

Wildebeest, tamed by Don Archer and Creation Quantum by Turtle Heart

(Issue 6 ? posted April 18, 1997)

Genetic Movies by John Mount and

Soomerschon from The Tulip Book of P. Cos, 1637

(Issue 5 ? posted April 4, 1997)

Taxol, by Michael W. Davidson and

Kindertotentanz: Chemotherapie by David A. Haughton

(Issue 4 ? posted March 21, 1997)

Butterfly Probiscis, by Dennis Kunkel and

Head of a Fuegian, by Conrad Martens

(Issue 3 ? posted March 5, 1997)

Human Eosinophil, by James A. Sullivan and Revival Field, by Mel Chin

(Issue 2 ? posted February 20, 1997)

Insulin, by Manuel C. Peitsch and Jean-Luc Bodmer and

DNA Under Glass, by Eric Suchanek

(Issue 1 ? posted February 1, 1997)

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