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17th-century anatomist made art out of bodies


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This 17th-Century Anatomist Made Art Out of Bodies

Frederik Ruysch, born on this day in 1638, was a doctor in Amsterdam in the late 1600s. And he made art out of people. It’s not quite as weird as it sounds: in the active medical community of 1700s Amsterdam, physicians were taking an unprecedented interest in how the body worked internally, and it was a place where art and science intersected, like the famous anatomical drawings of Andreas Vesalius, which show bodies missing skin and sometimes other parts of their anatomy in active poses. Ruysch, who was a technological innovator when it came to preserving bodies for study, just took it a few steps further.

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Interesting how many times things like this show up in stories about serial killers using their victims or trophies from their victims for art.

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