Tag: The Punished Suicide

• 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