Jan Van Calcar
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Jan Van Calcar also known as Jan Steven(szoon) Van Calcar or Johan Stephen von Calcar, (born circa 1499, died 1545) 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).
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