The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic by Joanna Ebenstein

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

Joanna Ebenstein

224 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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Of all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venus--with its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and death--is the most seductive. These life-sized dissectible wax women reclining on moth-eaten velvet cushions--with glass eyes,...

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