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Thames & hudson ltd The anatomical venus |
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ISBN: 9780500252185 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2016 |
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Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susinis 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 worlds anatomy museums and...
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