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On the occasion of the 500 years from the birthday of Vesalius, a conference and an exhibition has been organized in the island of Zakynthos, and brings to surface the issue that has arisen from people of the island (which Andreas Vesalius is buried) to use his relic in order to make a bust over his image. Something that the American newspaper NY Times commented about “It’s definitely something that Vesalius would have loved”.

The exhibition will travel to other cities of Europe and will take place from the 4th to the 8th of September with the name «Vesalius Continuum and Fabrica Vitae.

Andreas Vesalius (Andreas Vesalius or Andries van Wesel, 31st of December 1514 – 15th of October 1564) was a Flemish anatomist.

His famous treatise De humani corporis fabrica libri septem in 1543 is about the construction of the human body, which he decorated with frescoes by the painter Jan van Kalkar). It was the first description of the human body, which corrected the errors of Galen.
He died in Zakynthos. The date of his death based on the new calendar is the 15th of October in 1564. He was born in Brussels when Belgium was still part of the Holy Roman Empire. He studied medicine in Louvain and Paris. Later he became an imperial doctor in Spain and professor at Padua.