FREDERIK RUYSCH AND HIS THESAURUS ANATOMICUS: A Morbid Guide

A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and collector of specimens. Considers the topics of the historical context of his work, the paradox of an artist of death whose work engenders the illusion of life, the conservation of specimens, and the shifting ascendancies of romanticism and rationality in the natural sciences.