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  • Death
    Ebenstein, Joanna
    Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse Macabre, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Renaissance paintings of dissected corpses and "anatomical Eves," Gothic literature, funeral effigies, Halloween, and paintings of the Last Judgment....

    $906.00 MXN

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  • Anatomica
    Ebenstein, Joanna

    $675.00 MXN

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  • Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
    Ruysch, Frederik / Ebenstein, Joanna (ed.)
    A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and collector of specimens.Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a celebrated Dutch anatomist, master embalmer, and museologist. He is best remembered today for strange tableaux, crafted from fetal skeletons and other human remains, that flicker provocatively at the ed...

    $641.00 MXN

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  • Anatomical Venus, The
    Ebenstein, Joanna
    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 Florence as the centerpiece of t...

    $901.00 MXN

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