Talk about creepy weirdos! This guy is the creepiest, creep to ever weirdo-out.
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a Dutch botanist and anatomist, who was not just a creepy weirdo, but also and scientific pioneer in the feed on preservation.
So what's an early modern guy do to with the new technology of anatomical preservation? Why create creepy "assemblages" of course. Ruysch liked nothing better than to preserve bodies parts, preferably dis-formed, or child body parts, then pose them in freaky-deaky positions: "I know a baby skeleton would look really good playing the violin on top on a pile of fetuses, with the skin of refugees' stretched to look like leaves," - natural history and material culture at it's best!
I have a few of prints of Ruysch assemblages that I have hung in the babies nursery. Take that you little baby creeps!
This shit reminded me that my kids could turn out to be real-life creepy weidos, at least they will be successful, rich creepy weirdos. Self made rich people are always creepy fucks.
Proper creepy weirdo.
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