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Monday, September 1, 2014

Decomposition of the Body in Ivory

HERE is more information on the ivory sculpture below from the Museo di Capodimonte.


Morbid Anatomy provided some beautiful pictures of it, including this:


They are right in saying that these are based on memento mori in ivory such as this:


and these on the right:


But it was also based on these:







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