The Cartographer Who Charted Every Vein

In 1958, a young anatomist named Frank Netter sat in his studio at the CIBA pharmaceutical company in New Jersey, painting what no camera could capture. Netter, a surgeon turned medical illustrator, spent over four decades producing more than 4,000 paintings of the human body — each one revealing hidden architecture that most physicians had only glimpsed in fragments on the operating table.…