[PDF] Clemente Susinis Wax Anatomical Models eBook

Author : Morbid Anatomy Museum
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0500773262

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Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini's Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. It - or, better, she - was conceived of as a means to teach human anatomy without need for constant dissection, which was messy, ethically fraught and subject to quick decay. This life-sized wax woman is adorned with glass eyes and human hair and can be dismembered into dozens of parts revealing, at the final remove, a beatific foetus curled in her womb. Sister models soon appeared throughout Europe, where they not only instructed the specialist students, but also delighted the general public. Deftly crafted dissectable female wax models and slashed beauties of the world's anatomy museums and fairgrounds of the 18th and 19th centuries take centre stage in this disquieting volume. Since their creation in late 18th-century Florence, these wax women have seduced, intrigued and amazed. Today, they also confound, troubling the edges of our neat categorical divides: life and death, science and art, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, spectacle and education, kitsch and art. Incisive commentary and captivating imagery reveal the evolution of these enigmatic sculptures from wax effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny.

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File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2002
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Cagliari's anatomical wax model collection, considered one of the finest in the world, provides us not only with a perfect description of the human body, but also tells us a lot about medical and surgical knowledge at the time the models were produced.

Author : Rebecca Messbarger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226520846

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Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-74), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of the most acclaimed anatomical sculptors of the Enlightenment. The Lady Anatomist tells the story of her arresting life and times, in light of the intertwined histories of science, gender, and art that complicated her rise to fame in the eighteenth century. Examining the details of Morandi’s remarkable life, Rebecca Messbarger traces her intellectual trajectory from provincial artist to internationally renowned anatomical wax modeler for the University of Bologna’s famous medical school. Placing Morandi’s work within its cultural and historical context, as well as in line with the Italian tradition of anatomical studies and design, Messbarger uncovers the messages contained within Morandi’s wax inscriptions, part complex theories of the body and part poetry. Widely appealing to those with an interest in the tangled histories of art and the body, and including lavish, full-color reproductions of Morandi’s work, The Lady Anatomist is a sophisticated biography of a true visionary.

Author : Joanna Ebenstein
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781938922916

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Author : Rachilde
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1603292551

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When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.