Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide Ebenstein Joanna
Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide Ebenstein Joanna A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and…
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Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide Ebenstein Joanna
A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and collector of specimens.Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a celebrated Dutch anatomist, master embalmer, and museologist. Ruysch exhibited these pieces, along with hundreds of other artful specimens, in his home museum and catalogued them in his lavishly illustrated Thesaurus Anatomicus. He is best remembered today for strange tableaux, crafted from fetal skeletons and other human remains, that flicker provocatively at the edges of science, art, and memento mori.
This book offers the first English translation of Ruysch's guide to his collection, along with all the illustrations from the original volume, photographs of some his most imaginative extant specimens, and more.Ruysch was at once a brilliant scientist, a preternaturally gifted
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