Exquisite Bodies

I had such a tough day at work on Thursday having to look at all those models coming in the office for our new advertisement campaign... Very luckily this happens once a year only! ^-^’


After all those emotions I had lunch with morbidfrog and had aprivate tour of her library!

Our new lunchtime picnic spot ^^'

After work, morbidfrog, vampyresheep, sallypointzero , Teresa, demondaz,rosenkavalier and myself met up at the Wellcome Collection to see “Exquisite Bodies”. A solid heart was definitely required as some of the exhibits were quite gruesome and so realistic it was sometimes hard to tell if there were real or wax models.

Anatomical Venus Undated (late 19th century).
Unlike some of her idealised counterparts, this anatomical Venus appears decidedly cadaverous...

Section of the thorax at the level of the heart Joseph Towne, London, c.1827-79.

This particular wax work was so realistic it had dry blood stains all over his body including on his tongue and inside his ears. His teeth, well the one he had left, were all rotten and the expression on his face was just indredible! Chilling...

Early stage of syphilis in a jar...

Pretty self explanatory and the label in Spanish says it all but if you really can't figure it out and was looking for a very good reason not to have children, this is the removal of the placenta just after giving birth. Lovely!

Model of a pregnant woman by Jules Talrich Paris, undated (late 19th century), Roca Collection

The Roca Collection includes a number of waxes made by Jules Talrich (1826-1904), the son of a French physician who became a celebrated anatomical model maker.

P.S.: Apologies to anyone was having their lunch when they read, I spent the last hour trying to put those under a cut but it does not bloody work!!! In fact I have not maaged to put antyhting under a cut for the past few weeks! >-<'