Engraving depicting the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris, c. 1550

Title: Engraving depicting the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris, c. 1550
Description: Engraving depicting the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris, c. 1550—Artist: Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer, 1890, Courtesy Private Collector—The cemetery took its name from the Church of the Holy Innocents that stood beside it. Vesalius and his colleagues would steal bones from the cemetery to study, and attempt to construct full-skeletons.
Alternative Title: Engraving of the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents in Paris. In the image bones lie scattered throughout this burial ground.

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