Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death by Morbid Anatomy Museum, Joanna Ebenstein

Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death

Morbid Anatomy Museum, Joanna Ebenstein

224 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction science informative reflective medium-paced
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Beneath 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...

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