{"id":1044299,"date":"2011-05-29T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/anatomy\/new-book-in-english-about-honore-fragonards-incredible-18th-century-anatomical-ecorches.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:12:01","slug":"new-book-in-english-about-honore-fragonards-incredible-18th-century-anatomical-ecorches-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/new-book-in-english-about-honore-fragonards-incredible-18th-century-anatomical-ecorches-2.php","title":{"rendered":"New Book (In English!!!) About Honor\u00e9 Fragonard’s Incredible 18th Century Anatomical Ecorch\u00e9s!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If the Founding Fathers wanted to visit Body Worlds they could have. Or pretty darn close, at least - they just needed to visit one of the many European cabinets of anatomical curiosities, to see the work of anatomists like Honore Fragonard.<\/p>

Fragonard's eighteenth-century ecorches were the clear precursors to Gunther von Hagens' \"Body Worlds\" exhibits: preserved, injected, partially dissected bodies in lifelike, dramatic poses, with ragged strips of muscle draped like primitive clothing over exposed vessels and nerves. The effect is eerie - like a Vesalius illustration sprung to (half-)life... --Bioephemera, \"If the Founding Fathers wanted to visit Body Worlds...\"<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>

Much has been said--and rightfully!--about the \"uncanny similarity\" (as one might charitably say) between the anatomical works of Body Worlds' impresario Gunther von Hagens<\/a> and the 18th Century allegorical anatomical ecorchés of Honoré Fragonard, cousin of well-known rococo painter Jean<\/span>-Honoré Fragonard<\/a>. Bioephemera says it very very<\/span> well today--as quoted above--and follows with a really nice, extensive review of the new, wonderful, lavishly illustrated Blast Books<\/a> publication Fragonard Museum: The Ecorches<\/span><\/a>.

<\/a>To read the entire post on the Bioephemera website--very much recommended!--click here<\/a>. To order a copy of the book for your very own--also highly recommended!--click here<\/a>.<\/p>

The specimens you see above -- and more! -- are housed in the amazing Le Musée de l’Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort (née Musée Fragonard) right outside of Paris; to find out more about that museum, click here<\/a>. Images as credited; to see more images from the Musée, click here<\/a>. To visit the museum website, click here<\/a>.<\/p>

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