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From Nature
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Published 2017-10-30T16:53:11+00:00
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Sir John Goodsir was a Scottish anatomist and had a considerable talent as a body cast sculptor, as shown in this work 'From Nature' which was attributed to him. The fibreglass work was created in the 19th century as a plaster cast of an anonymous, partially dissected body.
The dramatic pose of the limp figure, lying prone with his back arch, resembles both Michelangelo's 1499 'Pieta' and Jacques-Louis David's 'The Death of Marat' from 1793, raising questions of beauty in artistic representations of the dead body.
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| Date published | 30/10/2017 |
| Complessità | Medium |
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| Title | From Nature |
| Date | 1845 |
| Medium | Fibreglass |
| Artist | John Goodsir |
| Place | Surgeons' Hall |
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