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[2/2] This table was offered by Italian anatomist and petrifier Efisio Marini to Napoleon III as a gift. It's now on display at the Museum of the History of Medicine in Paris.
I have talked about it in my book Paris Mirabilia:
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@hubertgriffe @MynetteMiller @FaQuatrieme Ça fait des années que j'étude l'acte de la dissection comme stratégie pour annuller la sèduction féminine. C'est un fil rouge qui part du Moyen-Âge et arrive jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Avec Méduse, la dissection est une décapitation, aillheurs c'est bien plus littéral.
Seen at the Kunstkammer in Vienna: Allegory of Vanity, by Michel Erhart or Jörg Syrlin the Elder c. 1470. A metaphor of the transience of youth, this wooden sculpture was in the 19th century enclosed in a cabinet, which allowed only one figure to be seen through a narrow opening.
Dalla mia biblioteca, 'Pervertimenti sessuali', 1900.
Il capitolo dedicato al feticismo racconta, tra l'altro:
1. come si cura la passione per le giarrettiere;
2. lo scandalo del politico ("cliente ed amico" dell'autore) ladro di trecce.
The alleged head of Mary Magdalene at the Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume.
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'Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.'
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch (2002)
John Jennings, the Iron Jawed Man (1845-1906) lifting two men on top of a barrel. Jennings survived a legendary train wreck I'll write about very soon.