Jan Van Calcar
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Jan Steven(szoon) Van Calcar (born Calcar c. 1499 - died c. 1545 Naples)
Jan Van Calcar was a Flemish painter and a pupil of Titian who spent most of his working life in Italy, dying in Naples. He is credited (by Vasari, Carel van Mander and others), with the famous woodcut illustrations of the anatomist Andreas Vesalius's famous works; most notably the anatomical study of the human body entitled De humani corporis fabrica libri septem or On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books (1543).
