Jakob Karrer von Gebweiler was publicly beheaded for crimes committed in Basel, Switzerland.
His corpse was turned over to a brilliant young Flemish doctor, Andreas Vesalius, who conducted a detailed dissection of the body, also in public.
Vesalius used the session to debunk much of the medical misinformation of the day and to produce one of the most important -- and beautifully illustrated -- scientific texts ever published, "De humani corporis fabrica" ("On the fabric of the human body") with stunning drawings by Jan Stephen van Calcar, said to have been a student of Titian.
He also drew derision from the medical establishment. Moralists decried turning human mortality into a spectacle and equated gawking at innards with the Roman circuses of barbaric antiquity.
Oil Portrait
He was summoned to inquests by church officials.
Oil Portraits
"Body Worlds Vital," the exhibition of human bodies on display at the Anchorage Museum, has also had its share of criticism and controversy.
Issues of consent, confidentiality, good taste and respect for the deceased have been raised.
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