skip to main | skip to sidebar

Grosser Anatomy

Things I come across day to day that are awesome, gross, or grossly awesome.

Search This Blog

Monday, March 18, 2013

On Wet Specimens

A Bat in a Jar – Wet Specimen and the History of the Curiosity Cabinet

– By: Elke Weesjes

Posted by Kali

Labels: creepy things, wunderkammer

No comments:

Labels

art (72)
artsy anatomy (72)
Art history (58)
lady matters (55)
books (51)
dead things (47)
bringing sexy back (39)
creepy things (39)
personal photos (29)
music videos (20)
death (18)
dem bones (18)
seathings (18)
Real Academic Quote of the Day (15)
skulls (15)
blood (13)
medicine (13)
Boobs (12)
lady parts (12)
Fashionatomy (11)
Pee (11)
fashion (11)
Ouch (10)
bwain (10)
music (10)
mysterious liquids (10)
pop culture (10)
Master Baiters (9)
animals (9)
flora (9)
penee (9)
poetry (9)
poop (9)
cinema (8)
ladies (8)
personal collection (8)
bioarchitecture (7)
disease (7)
gross (7)
monsters (7)
video (7)
Awesomeness (6)
Historical Pron (6)
academic things (6)
automata (6)
butts (6)
eyeballs (6)
flapdoodles (6)
heart (6)
hipster anatomy (6)
movies (6)
words (6)
Photography (5)
Wellcome Collection (5)
alchemy (5)
biomagination (5)
collecting (5)
color (5)
exhibition (5)
magical things (5)
taxidermy (5)
x-ray (5)
BOWIE (4)
audio pleasure (4)
cannibalism (4)
censorship (4)
edibles (4)
ivory (4)
midwifery (4)
objects (4)
victorian things (4)
wut (4)
Darwin (3)
HALLOWEEN (3)
Scholarly Article Quote of the Day (3)
TeeVee (3)
Weiners (3)
adorable anatomy (3)
architecture (3)
botany (3)
ceramics (3)
disembodied genitalia (3)
dolls (3)
electrifying anatomy (3)
fauna (3)
fire (3)
hair (3)
naked people (3)
noms (3)
obscenity (3)
preggers (3)
religiousity (3)
silliness (3)
smelly things (3)
teef (3)
touchy-feely (3)
vanitas (3)
wax Venuses (3)
wearable anatomy (3)
wunderkammer (3)
zombeh (3)
Beetus (2)
Dickinson (2)
Durer (2)
Flappy McFlapperson (2)
French things (2)
NIN (2)
NYT Quote of the Day (2)
New York Times Quote of the Day (2)
Old-timey advertisements (2)
Vesalius (2)
Witkin (2)
anamorphosis (2)
anyone? (2)
bioart (2)
bloomsbury quotes (2)
bow chicka bow wow (2)
buried things (2)
cartoony things (2)
churchy things (2)
corkscrew penee (2)
curioser (2)
drugs (2)
erotica (2)
fetuses (2)
flotsam and jetsam (2)
funny faces (2)
genitalia (2)
geology (2)
giant dead fish (2)
giant fake whales (2)
history is fucked up (2)
hospitals (2)
keisters (2)
maths (2)
menstruation (2)
murder (2)
nostalgia (2)
prosthetics (2)
punkins (2)
radio (2)
rosicrucians (2)
royals (2)
shameless trend-following (2)
skythings (2)
space (2)
spectacle (2)
vino (2)
wabbits (2)
war (2)
worms (2)
Anne Frank (1)
Artists Say the Darndest Things (1)
Bellmeriana (1)
Beyond Regretsy (1)
Boerhaave (1)
Detritus from the blogosphere (1)
Duke University Libraries (1)
Early Modern flatulence (1)
Ed Ruscha (1)
Einstein (1)
Fecal matters (1)
For Brynne and Allison (1)
Hendrick Goltzius (1)
I have 99 problems (1)
Interpretation (1)
Kiki Smith (1)
Laocoon (1)
Linnaean silliness (1)
METAL (1)
Mutter Museum (1)
Paul Graves (1)
Peter Schjeldahl (1)
Rijksmuseum (1)
Scientific Illustration (1)
Seussian things (1)
Surgical Instruments (1)
The More You Know (1)
The fuh (1)
Wagner (1)
advice (1)
anatomy theaters (1)
ancient anatomy (1)
ancient widsom (1)
anthropomorphization (1)
aphrodisiacs (1)
archaeology (1)
archived things (1)
avian (1)
bad advice (1)
badass (1)
balloons (1)
barrel erotica? (1)
beetles (1)
bestiality (1)
birthing chair (1)
boogers (1)
booze (1)
butt trumpets (1)
cartographia (1)
circumcised pieces of Christ (1)
cockatoos (1)
cookbooks (1)
cooties (1)
dance (1)
dissected head (1)
dramatic monologues (1)
dudes (1)
ephemera (1)
epidermis (1)
essen (1)
fiction (1)
forgery (1)
gang signs (1)
gaze (1)
gemology (1)
genderifica (1)
geography (1)
glam rock (1)
glitter (1)
gore (1)
hookers (1)
kaffee (1)
kidneys (1)
kunst (1)
machinery (1)
man as machine (1)
mayhem (1)
memetry (1)
mousetrap (1)
mouthy stuff (1)
museums (1)
neato burrito (1)
necrotizing fasciitis (1)
oops (1)
penee piercing (1)
period eye (1)
philosophy (1)
pie (1)
public dissection (1)
quadrupeds (1)
relics (1)
root vegetables (1)
sauciness (1)
scrub-a-dub-dub (1)
selfies (1)
sheaths (1)
skin (1)
smily sperm (1)
snails (1)
snowflakes (1)
solid things (1)
soup bowl (1)
super (1)
supermarket viscera (1)
syphilis (1)
tee hee (1)
things to sit on (1)
time (1)
tiny humans (1)
true dat (1)
typography (1)
unicorns (1)
uplifted skirts (1)
vaccines (1)
vaginal fruit (1)
viral (1)
voyeurism (1)
wax (1)
wee things (1)
why do I feel like painting right now (1)
witches and things (1)
witty asides (1)

Blog Archive

► 2018 (14)
- ► August (3)
- ► July (4)
- ► June (5)
- ► February (2)

► 2017 (10)
- ► October (4)
- ► July (2)
- ► April (1)
- ► March (3)

► 2016 (85)
- ► November (1)
- ► October (1)
- ► September (3)
- ► August (4)
- ► July (11)
- ► June (10)
- ► May (7)
- ► April (3)
- ► March (7)
- ► February (8)
- ► January (30)

► 2015 (172)
- ► December (12)
- ► November (33)
- ► October (26)
- ► September (5)
- ► August (5)
- ► July (7)
- ► June (23)
- ► May (25)
- ► April (7)
- ► March (7)
- ► February (14)
- ► January (8)

► 2014 (188)
- ► December (10)
- ► November (13)
- ► October (19)
- ► September (53)
- ► August (14)
- ► July (11)
- ► June (16)
- ► May (14)
- ► April (12)
- ► March (6)
- ► February (10)
- ► January (10)

▼ 2013 (122)
- ► November (1)
- ► October (4)
- ► September (8)
- ► July (1)
- ► June (3)
- ► May (17)
- ► April (19)
- ▼ March (30)
- ► February (28)
- ► January (11)

► 2012 (231)
- ► December (25)
- ► November (24)
- ► October (36)
- ► September (17)
- ► August (1)
- ► July (7)
- ► June (3)
- ► May (7)
- ► April (23)
- ► March (25)
- ► February (39)
- ► January (24)

► 2011 (24)
- ► December (6)
- ► November (1)
- ► October (1)
- ► September (2)
- ► August (2)
- ► July (1)
- ► May (1)
- ► April (2)
- ► March (4)
- ► February (4)

► 2010 (52)
- ► December (2)
- ► November (2)
- ► October (6)
- ► September (1)
- ► August (1)
- ► July (2)
- ► June (7)
- ► May (3)
- ► April (2)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (12)
- ► January (9)

► 2009 (19)
- ► December (3)
- ► November (10)
- ► October (6)

My Blog List

I Heart Guts

Mini Plush Bag Charms! - Oh my heart! Mini uterus plushie bag charm and mini heart bag charm are here to steal your heart! Things that make you go AWWW.... Clasp a heart to your ...
Morbid Anatomy

Recorded Lectures, Illustrated Essays, and Loads of Other Excusive New Content on our Patreon! - Dr. Alexander Cummins at the "Morbid Anatomy Revival Tent" at Green-Wood Cemetery's Night Fall. Photo: Maike Schulz Over past few years, Morbid Anatomy ...
Res Obscura

Enlightenment-era Ghosts and the History of Technology - *A detail of one of Etienne Gaspard Robertson's "phantasmagoria."* Ghosts were in the air in eighteenth-century London. Few knew this better than James B...
Skull-A-Day

Vanitas - My latest sticker art piece "Vanitas" was inspired by the 17th century Dutch Vanitas painting genre where images of skulls and other objects were used a...
The Chirurgeon's Apprentice

The Butchering Art – BOOK TRAILER! - With just one week left until the launch of my debut book, it’s my great pleasure to unveil the trailer for The Butchering Art. A great deal of love, thoug...
Wonders & Marvels

Five for Friday: Crystal King - The post Five for Friday: Crystal King appeared first on Wonders & Marvels.
d i a p s a l m a t a

The end. - This blog has been discontinued. I've started a new project, a print/digital zine called *Pounce!*. You can subscribe to and read about that project here: ...
BibliOdyssey

Humble Heather - *Early 19th century hand-coloured * *engravings of heath flowers* The vast majority of the 860+ species in the genus Erica (heaths/heather) are endemic t...
CRAPPY TAXIDERMY

Wow, Crappy Taxidermy’s first celebrity post! We live in very... - Wow, Crappy Taxidermy’s first celebrity post! We live in very exciting times. Spotted in Seminole Hills, Florida. Submitted by Justin A.
ars anatomica

Anonymous Persian Anatomical Illustrations - +
bioephemera.com

More Awe, Please - Last year I posted this essay on the awe-inducing power of murmurations, in which I mused on the relationship between awe and fear: When I’m lucky enough t...
Wellcome Library

The Wellcome Library website is changing… - On Wednesday, 21st November, visitors to the Wellcome Library website will notice that we’ve made some changes. We’ve given the whole site an overhaul, wit...
Suzanne Gerber - Giving Taste A Bad Name Since Kindergarten

April Treats from my Twitter + Where I Can Be Found - Just in case you’re not following me on twitter, this is what you have missed EMBED
Street Anatomy

The Zygomatic Frying Pan - We’ve seen skulls made out of Legos, diamonds, and even fur—now we’ve got cookware. This giant skull, constructed entirely out of everyday pots and pans is...
100% pure spleen

-

Grosser Anatomy

Search This Blog

Monday, March 18, 2013

On Wet Specimens

A Bat in a Jar – Wet Specimen and the History of the Curiosity Cabinet

– By: Elke Weesjes

No comments:

Post a Comment

Labels

Blog Archive

My Blog List