Description
If you’re looking for a gift for that person that has everything, check this book out! Just outside Paris, France is a museum like no other featuring preserved and dissected real animal and human cadavers created using a special process by Honoré Fragonard. Fragonard’s specimens challenge our understanding of historical science, Western culture, and the display of the dead. These impressive spectacles featuring over 250 year old, permanently preserved bodies are still on display in the stunning collection of the Fragonard Museum, and are photographed in this book. Intriguing, strange, and the rarest of rare, Fragonard’s écorchés are specimens from a realm that exists between art and science and are the historical precursor of modern-day plastinated anatomical specimens popularly exhibited worldwide.
