Dienstag, 24. März 2015

                             A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, eye , hair
                                                     1825 By: Louis-Léopold Boillyafter


                                                 Vantias-Diorama Memento Mori Ruysch














                                                      Naked woman with head of a bear

possibly published by John Smith, after Unknown artist, mezzotint, 1680-1690 © National Portrait Gallery, London






















"This monkey is wearing a skirt and a ruff fashioned from the feathers of a rhea, a large, flightless bird. It was buried alongside a human mummy of unknown age discovered at Grand Chaco in the Atacama desert in Argentina. "


Illustration showing spectators and sight-seers visiting the Paris Morgue, c. 1870s. The city had built a glass wall in front of a refrigerated room, so that the visiting public could help to identify unknown corpses, but it soon became simply a gruesome tourist attraction, drawing as many as 40,000 per day before the morgue closed to the public in 1907."




















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