Flesh & Wax. The Clemente Susini's anatomical models in the University of Cagliari
Author: Alessandro Riva
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9788889188989
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCagliari'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: Alessandro Riva
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 48
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 70
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 69
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Publisher: L'Erma Di Bretschneider
Published: 2019-07-30
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9788891318411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rachilde
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1603292551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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.
Author: Morbid Anatomy Museum
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2016-05-16
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0500773262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeneath 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.
Author: Julius Ritter von Schlosser
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780892368778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe material history of wax is a history of disappearance--wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It can approximate flesh with astonishing realism and has been used to create uncanny human simulacra since ancient times--from phallic amulets offered to heal distressing conditions and life-size votive images crammed inside candlelit churches by the faithful, to exquisitely detailed anatomical specimens used for training doctors and Medardo Rosso's "melting" portraits. The critical history of wax, however, is fraught with gaps and controversies. After Giorgio Vasari, the subject of wax sculpture was abandoned by art historians; in the twentieth century it once again sparked intellectual interest, only soon to vanish. The authors of the eight essays in Ephemeral Bodies--including the first English translation of Julius von Schlosser's seminal "History of Portraiture in Wax" (1910-11)--break new ground as they explore wax reproductions of the body or body parts and assess their conceptual ambiguity, material impermanence, and implications for the history of Western art.