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JOANNA EBENSTEIN
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Anatomical Theatre
Depictions of The Body, Disease and Death in Med1cal Museums of The Western World.
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Alabama Muaeum of the Hullh Sclencea : Birmingham, Alabama
The earliest recorded donation to what became the Alabama Museum of the Heal th
Sciences was an ou·of·date apothecary scale given in 1946 to t he University of Alabama
and Its Medical Center In Birmingham. Three-dimensional object s were given throughout the
decades and the Museum was offlclally established in 198 1.
Today t he Museum has over 4,000 objects Including hundreds of wet specimens preserved
under the direction of pathologi st Or. William Boyd, who wintered in Birmingham during the
mld·ZOth century. Other t reasured collection pieces are nineteen wax pathological
specimens by London sculptor Joseph Towne and purchased by Or. Josiah Nott In 1860 for
the first medical college of Alabama. From the donated collections of Or. Lawrence
Reynolds, after whom the Reynolds Historical Ubrary is named, are eleven rare anatomical
manikJilS of the 1Sth to 17th centuries.
Dedicated to colectJng medical-f'elated artifacts used primarily in the southeastern Uno ted
States, the Alabama fo.luseum of the Health Sciences cares for many significant pieces
developed and/ or used by health care professionals as tead!ing tools or for patient care on
the state and speaficaly the I.Jnvefscty of Alabama at BGlingham.
Vcstt the museum website by cliCking here.
Museum of A natomical Waxea " Lui gi Cattezneo• (Museo Delle Cere Anatomlche
" Luig i Cattaneo" ): Bologne. Italy
Museum of Anatomical Waxes " Lu(91 Cattazneo• (Museo Delle Cere Anatomiche "Luigi
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the Item• ara admittedly geared mora toward magicians-particularly pages of card
1rlcks and rMntalism tffKta. Wh"• they would certain~ ha-..e serYed a fraudulent
medium wtll, I found th• lall"'lalt marl.ralronlc: th.t magicians might have used a
dllgulaad magic ctl411og to •expo••' fraudulent mediums with de't1ces more suited
lo their own altlght~of-.h~nd pedormancaa than legitimate seance practitioners, who
ra rely nt•d•d much mor~ th an a d1.1k room and e. group of faithful believers, So
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Bre.ndon Hodge II an Aut Un·baJtd a uthor e.nd antiquarian. He is the historical
authority on aulomallowrh!ng planchett.e, and owns the world's finest collection
of dance 11nd tpir!t cornrnun!c•llon ap~ratu ' which he docume n1s on his popular
wtbs!tt, www."l'tltrlou•plt nchelte.com.
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The Anatomical Venus is a compelline and unsettlin~ look at the eroticised female waxworks used
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offerin~s of the Renaissance to the anatomically instructive Venus wax fiQures of Ihe Enli~htenment.
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noc the lir$t to capnalttc on Images of the anatomh:«< human body. Th~ bad
tone carcul~tcd in n vancry of rdigiOUS. arnsttc and ritual tradiuons. many of
wblt'h tnnucn«d tM con,'(:ntiomof the C.tl'ly sdcnu fic worldv'lcw up until dtc
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One of the best tnown or tilde wen= f'lm>o'IIH 111:0 0.1 a.rtwort:s mtc.rukd to
remind the n~r tlw that they. ~ wou.ld dtc. a.s a meansof tn\'Obng them co
lrvc a more holy life. Common D'opel of thoe fllo(llt(~f!Wl trad:luon mdudcd the
ckc'OmpCIII"C human body aw«~ In wwms and tNds.. .stulls. .slcktom and
fi.JW'C' thlt ~c h&lf d:ck-10n. balf nutldc fbb. Otbtt rommon YlSIODS of cfko
Around l100 tumbo wns approached by Guillaume Oesnoues to emplo}'
tlb renowned sltlb In rrcn ung a Ulteness an wa.t of an tmportant medtcal
prcpmUon th.at wu bqi nnt nc to decompo,sc. The productof thiS coiJaborauon
WM cbe line Wl.\ '""tomical tuthJng model: u also cstablubed the tradition
of •r• llrtisuc mcdtcal p~rtntr$htp tn the aeauon of sucb tools. Pan fl'tC!lem.-,
"' ""'· ~n pcdqory. «he modd embodtC$ the fa.scanation tbolt all cultures
dc.MONU"ote ll!)w.f'd.J duth th~t pak:$1 o( human mysrrnes. and ~ way.s. in
WIUd'lltan ~n-cnu~tybft.at truof met.1phot. atf«t and mtaru.nc.
In tbc mtd .tiXteenth century. the study of anatomy C:.:Cik"nenc~ a
rcnlb.Mn«. ~ n W» hbn'lud from a emtunC$ lone «:bU)C(' oo da.ssac.al
lndtuon by And~» \a.altm (15t4 1~} - Throufb the diSSCruonofhum.an
c~ \'naluu had d~tted that tb(- wudom b.andtd down (rom lbe
ckldandJNII)Cftl:tnlbodytnt'furkdthcdftgJcsandpam~ofaun)Ttcbam&$.
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abbol Clltt8no Ciullo Zummo UMG 1101), aka Zumbo. in ooUaboration with
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and nnatomi" Guillaume l)esnoues 0650..113.~}. Zumbo
n:nowm:d fot• hi.$ Bat'Oq'Ue. 1lu:alttiof Death'. Th(;\(' "''rre tiny wa'l: dJoramas
filled wnh mccleu»usly t•endered and inm:d ibl)' lifelike reprrsentations of
<lelld, de<omi)O.Si n' and tot•tured humans. btaring dd~ruch a.s 1'hr Pl~e· .
'TheTHumJ)h ol11me.. 'The Tl·aN.tence of Hu m.anCio1y· and 'S}'phili.s'. His ..,eork
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dl'C'W •he llttentlon o( both the Crand Duke Co.simo of 1\Lsc:an)', who b«ame
l u mbo'l l)atron . and the Marquts de Sade. who said of one of his pfrces; 'So
powerful it the Impression llroduced by thu ma.su:.rpt«r !hat (Vtn a.s you
ple 111 it your other .u rues a~ played upon. moaN audtblc. you wrin.kk )OOr
nOte • '' Y'JU could detttt the evil odours of momltty.... These .scenes of the
plJC'•e appnled to my crud tmiiCI natton: and I mused ho....• many persons bad
undet'p)ne these a-.-•ful mdarno-rpbo6esthanls m nrrwtckedncss?'
llnt'lrl'lt Crttk phy~i ri$n Calen uponwbose texts the W~tern medtcal tradttion
tUI(I I)ern b:lscd. WCI'C: intOtr('('l. Calen had, II turned OUt, n~·er dJs.sened a
hu.mllfl bo<t:y, U$U(h p t'al'UC( was fotbldden 1n ancien t Grel'CC. Instead. he bad
based his lhcol'lcsof the human body on his dlssectiomof Barbary macaques
111ld p ia~. and 1he e~aml nauon of patiems during so1~1')'. which had led to
muny bPslr faenu•l ert'Ors.
tn I 5+3. Vesaltus published }ru"l<l!ll ~ Nt~lft Fu!>nca (flit tllo> fubnc o; tho: Ht~mon
~~~1'1) w1tich 4<'1 the lln.lltomlcal l'ttOI'd straight A )a\•ishl)' illustrated elephant
foUo. 11 b filled wl•h uquisue ena:rm•1ngs. probably r-rnd.ertd by an artist from
1111anJ Venetutn scudtO. 11l-r booi: deplcu p • after pagt of dramatic <'Cilrc.'le
ft11~ muscle men--and $1teletal figutei posing vo1th considerable amma.tion
i.n • pa,;toBII.tndJC"Ipe ThC"SC illusttollons wt-~ h.lghty tnnue:rnd b)• """""'nw
"""'I •nd ftne •r. c:onventlons, and feature an anatomically correct .skeleton
c:on tcrnplll
lllull. and an ll. •tit'~ draping hiS rc~ sk.in. tn a ~{~nee to
I he la~nocr.phy of the ftllycd St 8anAolomcw
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museo
galileo
Le Musee Spitzner, 1943, by Paul Delvaux; Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels
Paul Delvaux, Sleeping Venus I (La Vénus endormie I), 1932
Paul Delvaux, Sleeping Venus (La Vénus endormie), 1944; The Tate Gallery
Marcel Duchamp Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage . . . (Given: 1. The
Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas . . . ), 1946-66,
Herbert List, ‘The Unknown One from the Danube, Vienna, Austria,’ 1944 (printed 1946),
Robert Miller Gallery
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1647–52
The Phenomenon of Ecstasy, photomontage by Salvador Dali (1933)
The Morbid
Anatomy Museum
A New Museum of Popular Anatomy
JOANNA EBENSTEIN
The Morbid Anatomy Museum • morbidanatomymuseum.org
joanna@morbidanatomymuseum.org