Ode to Anatomical Venus - Joanna Ebenstein 

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“The purpose of anatomical images during the period of the Renaissance to the 

19th century had as much to do with what we would call aesthetic and theological 

understanding as with the narrower interests of medical illustrators as now understood 

… They were not simply instructional diagrams for the doctor technician, but 

statements about the nature of human beings as made by God in the context of the 

created world as a whole … they are about the nature of life and death…”

—Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace, Spectacular Bodies

Amazing Gif 

Grover Krantz (1931-2002) was known as a teacher, a loving pet owner, an eccentric anthropologist, and the first serious Bigfoot academic. Seven years after losing a battle to pancreatic cancer, Krantz’s reputation is still well preserved, in more ways than one. His skeleton and that of his giant Irish Wolfhound Clyde are now on display at the 5,000 square foot exhibition “Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake,” which opened last Saturday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/02/grover-krantz-donated-his-body-to-science-on-one-condition/#ixzz2Gm4BXuBz 

lombroso’s museum of criminal anthropology >follow link for more.

Lab - Shanell papp - 2005 

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SOMEONE HAS WATER MARKED MY WORK FOR ANATOMICAL KNITTING?!?!? Anatomical knitting is NOT my FBpage…..and it my skeleton isn’t knit?! It is Crochet. 

Body Worlds - Plastination - Guther Von Hagens

Museum of Natural History - La Specola

Musee Fragonard

Moulage Museum

The Mummy Congress - Heather Pringle