Tag: Anatomy

• The Punished Suicide

  Ivan Cenzi brings a strange story of suicide to Death and the Maiden this week. One beginning with sorrow and ending in spectacle. It’s 1863 and on hearing of a young girl’s suicide, anatomist Lodovico Brunetti requests her body be brought to him for experiments. What evolves from his casting and preservation work is unexpected.…

  Death and the Maiden

  24/10/2016

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  Anatomy, Art, Bizzarro Bazar, Creation, Death, Exhibitions, History, Human Life, Human Remains, Italy, Ivan Cenzi, Medical, Morgangni Museum of Anatomical Pathology, Museum, Padova, Paris, Photography, Preservation, Religion, Suicide, Taboo, The Punished Suicide, Wax

• Shrouds or Lingerie? Traditional Female Burial Garments

  Patricia Lundy explores the relationship between death & the feminine regularly on her beautiful blog Somthng Eldritch. Through exploration of literature and Victorian history Patricia delves into the mourning rituals of a bygone era. In this post sexual suggestion and the male gaze is contemplated by visiting the works of two amazing authors. Kate Mayfield…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/03/2016

  Guest Post

  Anatomy, Beauty, Burial, Burial Shrouds, Chris Woodyard, Deadmaidens, Death, Delicate, Design, Edgar Allan Poe, Exposure, Fashion, Female, Kate Mayfield, Lingerie, Negligee, Objectification, Sexualisation, The Undertaker’s Daughter, The Victorian Book of the Dead, Vulnerability

• Is Taxidermy a “Girl Thing”?

  I get called a lot of things by taxidermy enthusiasts, animal-rights activists, and the media. I’m apparently an instructor, an expert, a hipster, an animal hater, a sicko, a stuffer…but one of the most puzzling things I have been called recently is a “woman taxidermist” and I get asked the same question time and time…

  Death and the Maiden

  26/10/2015

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  Anatomy, Animals, Art, Creativity, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Gender Roles, History, Natural History, Practice, Taxidermy, Technique, Workshops

• Recording the Diseased & the Deceased: A Brief Look at the work of a Medical Photographer

  Anni Skilton chose to pursue a career photographing the medically curious, the diseased and the deceased. Here she shares her experiences in various hospital departments, up close and personal capturing the incredible. An inevitable part of Anni’s job involves working with those at end-of-life as well as taking photographs postmortem.

  Death and the Maiden

  27/07/2015

  Guest Post

  Anatomy, Career, Deadmaidens, Death, Diagnostics, Diseased, History, Medical, Medical Curiosities, Medical Illustration, Medical Photographer, Mortuary, Photography, Post-Mortem, Post-Mortem Photography, Specimens, Surgery, Wellcome

• Bringing Franz Fieldler Back to Life

  It’s a strangely sweet and innocent romance that is portrayed between them. Is the woman kneeling at the skeleton’s feet pleading with him, or in loving adoration? Are those boney arms of death tightly wrapped around the nude maiden’s flesh done so in a passionate embrace of lust and longing, or aggressive entrapment? Who is…

  Death and the Maiden

  20/07/2015

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  Adornment, Anatomy, Art, Art Macabre, Artist, Barts Pathology Museum, Beauty, Carla Valentine, Creation, Danse Macabre, Dead Meet, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Death Drawing, Franz Fiedler, Inspiration, Live Model, Model, Museum, Nude, Philippe Halsman, Photography, Salvador Dali, Skeleton, Specimens

• Death Under Glass

  The presence of a microscope in the morgue or the office of a forensic scientist seems to be a symbol to impress upon audiences the seriousness of the science being performed in that episode. But viewers are never shown “the pathologist’s view of the world”, so to speak – exactly what does the doctor see…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/02/2015

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  Anatomy, Art, Artist, Beauty, Career, Colour, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Death Under Glass, Diagnosis, Disease, Forensic, Industry, Inspire, Medical, Microscope, Morgue, Mortuary, Pathology, Post-Mortem