Joanna Ebenstein

The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic

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ISBN 13:: 9781938922916
author:: Joanna Ebenstein
format:: HardBack
publisher:: Distributed Art Publishers
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2016
Pages:: 224
Dimensions:: 17.5 x 2.5 x 24.1 cm
Genre:: Scientific, Technical & Medical, Medicine & Nursing, Basic Medical Science, Joanna Ebenstein,The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic,Distributed Art Publishers (DAP),1938922913,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Anatomy, Artistic - History,Death
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The Anatomical Venus Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic by Joanna Ebenstein In 18th-century Florence, a unique and captivating art form emerged: the Anatomical Venus. These life-sized, wax figures of women were created to teach human anatomy, yet they also conveyed a complex relationship between the human body and the divine cosmos. Today, these wax women continue to intrigue and confound, challenging our categorizations between life and death, body and soul. This book brings together over 250 images of the Anatomical Venus, gathered from around the world, and explores their historical and cultural context. Ebenstein delves into the shifting attitudes towards death and the body that render such spectacles strange, examining connections between death and wax, the tradition of life-sized simulacra, and ideas of the ecstatic, the sublime, and the uncanny. Through its extensively researched text, The Anatomical Venus sheds new light on a fascinating and little-known aspect of art and science history.

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