One of Dr Louis Auzoux’s smaller than life-sized papier-mâché anatomical figures in the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. These type of models are one of the things I will be discussing tomorrow in my talk for the @roysocmed
A nineteenth century corrosion cast preparation showing the vasculature of the face made in Saló, Italy, by Giovan Battista Rini
Skulls in the ossuary at Marville in France
Facial anatomy in one of Louis Auzoux’s life sized ‘anatomie clastique’ mannequins…
Plaster models showing eye diseases, made by French doctor Félix Thibert in the 1830s. He wanted all doctors to have access to a clinical picture of all common diseases so produced a series of models like these intended as a three dimensional encyclopaedia
Vision Thing: the Eyes - Cat Irving - The Last Tuesday Society
Adventures in Anatomy is a series which will explore different parts of the body, combining science, myth, history and folklore to look at the way our understanding of them has […]
On Tuesday I’ll be giving an online talk about the eye for the Last Tuesday Society ! You can find out more about models like this, about folklore and myth surrounding them, the history of prosthetic eyes - plus some of the eye-watering things people have done to figure out how it works!
A view of the pathology museum in Venice
Well, just look who got a replica of one of the painted skulls of Hallstatt for Christmas…!
This was an expensive monument - at £460 it cost more than the chapel in which it sits. Robert Cecil was Secretary of State to Elizabeth I, and Lord High Treasurer to James VI and I, so he was an important man. It was made of white marble by the finest craftsmen, including Maximilian Colt who had designed Elizabeth I’s tomb in Westminster. The irony of this expense is that the message is to remind us of the transience of life, that wealth and status such as Robert Cecil’s matter not after death.
