Joanna Ebenstein
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Joanna Ebenstein
Anatomica
Visually strong set of illustrations given prominence for the first time in a book"There's a fine line between the horrible and the sublime, and Joanna Ebenstein's Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy walks it.
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Joanna Ebenstein
Morbid Anatomy Museum
The Anatomical Venus
Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini’s Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief.
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Death
Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse Macabre, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Renaissance paintings of dissected corpses and “anatomical Eves,” Gothic literature, funeral effigies, Halloween, and paintings of the Last Judgment.
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The Art of Fairy Tales
Step into a world where imagination knows no bounds with The Art of Fairy Tales by Joanna Ebenstein. This lavishly illustrated gift book invites readers on a mesmerizing journey through the enchanted realm of fairy tales as interpreted by master artists across centuries.
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Mel Gordon
Cabarets of Death
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.
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