Julie, the lovestruck woman in a painting, who inspired an. The anatomical preparations of honore fragonard eighteenthcentury studies 36. One anatomist took this to an unprecedented extreme. Eighteenthcentury anatomist honore fragonards ecorchespreserved dissected.
Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. Founded in 1766, the fragonard museum is one of the oldest museums in france. The most complete book featuring honore fragonards not the painter, his cousin. Author christophe degueurce, curator of the fragonard museum, evokes the social turmoil and intellectual ferment surrounding honore fragonard and brings to life not only the character of the uncommonly gifted anatomist, but reveals as well his recent discovery of fragonards secrets of the ecorches manufacture. Honore fragonard was one of the first medical masters of france, and his extensive collection contains rooms devoted. Another side of the master portraits that serve as compelling displays of the artists mythic powers of invention rather. Honore fragonard 1732 1799, cousin of the much more famous rococo painter, trained to be a surgeon but then pursued a career as an. Export from an object page includes entry, notes, images, and all menu items except overview and related contents.
About honore fragonards incredible 18th century anatomical ecorches. Eighteenthcentury anatomist honore fragonard s ecorchespreserved dissected real animal and human cadaversare extraordinary works of. Honore fragonard appears in a brief but important role in susanne alleyn s historical mystery novel the cavalier of the apocalypse 2009. Fragonard was articled to a paris notary when his fathers circumstances became strained through unsuccessful speculations, but showed such talent and inclination for art that he was taken at the age of eighteen to francois boucher. Honore fragonard transformed the human body into an object of strange art, flaying. But fragonards successors largely forgot him perhaps partly through the efforts of his jealous exboss. Early anatomical specimens model the macabre hyperallergic. Taciturn in his lifetime, fragonard spent his days and nights curved over cadavers, and never published a single volume to explain his techniques and motivations. It was the first time a photographer was allowed to enter the horror room of the veterinarian museum of maison. Honore fragonard june 1732 5 april 1799 was a french anatomist, now remembered. The other fragonard is a book published in 1980, now available in an ebook edition. The last three sections of the book turn to a moral argument about the benefits of. Jeanhonore fragonard was born at grasse, alpesmaritimes, the son of francois fragonard, a glover, and francoise petit. Fragonard and one of his works is mentioned in the novel austerlitz 2001 by w.
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