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The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic
The Anatomical Venus Wax God Death the Ecstatic
Author: Joanna Ebenstein
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, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras crowning their real human hair-were created in eighteenth-century...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781938922916
ISBN-10: 1938922913
Publication Date: 5/24/2016
Pages: 224
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Publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
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