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Anatomical Venus, 1782, by Clemente Susini and workshop
From the Getty Villa’s Color of Life Exhibition
Photo by Saulo Bambi, Museo di Storia Naturale “La Specola” Florence, Italy
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From Musée des Moulages, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris
“A whole army of dermtatoses, in their precise representation, in their exceptional crudeness, in their frightening realism; the ugly, the monstrous, the painful…. [T]hese human remains, figures which are collected at the hospital, are like souvenirs where treacherous infections are revived.”
— Description of the waxes at Hôpital Saint-Louis Musée des Moulages from La Cité des Misère, Léon Roger-Milès, 1890, as quoted in Mary Hunter’s “Effroyable Réalism: Wax, Femininity, and the Madness of Realist Fantasies” (via Morbid Anatomy)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzoajq79W41qa2t6ho1_500.jpg)
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From Musée des Moulages, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris
“A whole army of dermtatoses, in their precise representation, in their exceptional crudeness, in their frightening realism; the ugly, the monstrous, the painful…. [T]hese human remains, figures which are collected at the hospital, are like souvenirs where treacherous infections are revived.”
— Description of the waxes at Hôpital Saint-Louis Musée des Moulages from La Cité des Misère, Léon Roger-Milès, 1890, as quoted in Mary Hunter’s “Effroyable Réalism: Wax, Femininity, and the Madness of Realist Fantasies” (via Morbid Anatomy)
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Life-sized wax model of a cesarean section from the Musee Spitzner
From Voir-La Collection Spitzner, eds. Phillipe Blon and Stephen Bann, 1998
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