Also worth mentioning that this isn't exactly a sculpture, it's two actual cadavers preserved in plastic resin.
A horse and its rider made between 1760 and 1793 by the French anatomist Honoré Fragonard (1732-1799). The sculpture is based on The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürerpic.twitter.com/K0nbrPzqKE
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Plastic resin between 1760 and 1793?
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No plastic resin. That came much later, in the early 1900s
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Injections into the vessels; Not wax but sheeps tallow. Then Fragonard varnished dry anatomic parts with larch resin, the turpentine from Venice, to avoid attack by destructive insects.
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"Which horseman?" "Yes."
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Oh this is so eerie... what’s it made out of?
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It's a human corpse and horse carcass, but apparently no one knows how they were preserved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoré_Fragonard …
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I don’t know how I feel about that
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The war horse play has taken an interesting turn to the macabre.
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Like something off of
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Me before my coffee amirite
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I’ve seen something similar by Von Hagen. But this goes further I think.
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IIRC, there was an apocryphal tale that the rider was his teenage mistress who died of consumption.
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which one though?
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Pretty appropriate since this dude's last years were the reign of terror in France
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