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11x14” and 16x20” framed prints for sale. Send inquiries to courtneybuckland@me.com
boerhaave006.jpg by astropop on Flickr.
Child’s arm, holding the eye’s vascular tissue. Prepared by,Bernardus Siegfried Albinus, 1730
Bernardus Siegfried Albinus Case in anatomy hall. All preparations by Albinus, Circa 1730.
From the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Of, or relating to, the Morbid Anatomy blog.
La Grande Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes, historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps.
Extremely rare French chapbook edition, sold by peddlers and at fairs, of one of the most popular educational picture books in Europe since the Middle Ages. Here two Dances of Death are depicted, first the Dance of Death of men of all ranks and professions, and after that the Dance of Death of women of various ranks and stations in life. These Dances of Death were meant to remind people that everybody was mortal however powerful in life, and to warn people to be prepared to die at all moments. The present ‘Grande Danse Macabre’ starts with the author addressing his readers, followed by the male Dance of Death, depicting the Dances of Death of the pope, emperor, cardinal, king, patriarch, duke, archbishop, knight, bishop, shield-bearer, abbot, bailiff, etc., so each time a religious person alternating with a worldly person, and each person is discussed as well in the verses underneath. At the end two woodcuts of heralds with a woodcut in between showing the damned in hell, and an old popular poem about the three dead and the three living are added.
The following series depicting the Dance of Death of women is first announced by another woodcut herald and then by the author, who is shown in a large woodcut standing in a garden holding plants and flowers and including several symbolic devices. The women’s series mainly consists of worldly figures like queen, duchess, wife of a knight, wife of a shield-bearer, shepherdess, bourgeois woman, newly wed woman, virgin, pregnant woman, chamber maid, witch, etc., but also includes an abbess. At the end several other popular poems relating to death are added. The chapbook is discussed at length by Nisard, with many reproductions of the woodcuts and comparison of texts.
It is to be dated by the ‘Extrait de la permission du Roi’, which is found at the end, signed by Coignard, and dated at Paris, May 21, 1728.
Paper art by Peter Callesen. Each work is made by cutting out one sheet of paper, and using the removed scraps to create figures, buildings, and other objects.
Félix Bracquemond
Unpublished frontispiece for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal
