To satisfy those of our readers (such as our colleagues at Street Anatomy ) who are hungry for more classical, anatomical stuff, we’re making this short interruption in the steady flow of contemporary biomedicine-on-display material.
Today we acquired a new anatomy-related art object — a plaster of Paris copy of a full-size male ecorché (representing a flogged muscle man), orginally made in 1869 by the Danish sculpturer Theobald Stein (1829-1901) and later cast in bronze.
Placed in the entrance hall of Medical Museion, the muscle man is not only a major attraction in itself — it also symbolizes our intense interest in connecting art and medicine in all possible ways, not only the contemporary art-biomedicine arena, but also in its classical (or in this case neo-neoclassical) expressions.
The ecorché is on the right. Below is our head of collections, Ion Meyer, acting as a model to find out where to best place Stein’s sculpture in the entrance hall.
See more pictures on Museionblog.
Today we acquired a new anatomy-related art object — a plaster of Paris copy of a full-size male ecorché (representing a flogged muscle man), orginally made in 1869 by the Danish sculpturer Theobald Stein (1829-1901) and later cast in bronze.
Placed in the entrance hall of Medical Museion, the muscle man is not only a major attraction in itself — it also symbolizes our intense interest in connecting art and medicine in all possible ways, not only the contemporary art-biomedicine arena, but also in its classical (or in this case neo-neoclassical) expressions.
The ecorché is on the right. Below is our head of collections, Ion Meyer, acting as a model to find out where to best place Stein’s sculpture in the entrance hall.
See more pictures on Museionblog.