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Safari Club by p0rtfolio on Flickr.
The Safari Club is a bar and restaurant in Oregon that is completely full of taxidermy. While it’s hardly museum-quality work (most of it’s pretty old), it’s still pretty cool to see the myriad of wild animals, up close and personal – dead though they may be!
Finished this up last night
’Eruptio Dentium’, 11×14
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Baroque Period Anatomical Wax Model
Venerina – Anatomical Venus 1780-1782
Marie Marguerite Bihéron
Located beneath the St Michael’s Church is a crypt holding the remains of the Wittelsbach family, who ruled Bavaria until the 19th century. Morbid ornaments adorn the richly detailed coffins of this family, including those of Ludwig II -the “Mad King”- who died under unusual circumstances after draining the Bavarian coffers to build his lavish castles, such as the infamous Neuschwanstein.
“Lovers’ eye”, eye miniature on ivory, c. 1830s. Hand-painted miniature of a left hazel eye on ivory in heart-shaped pendant.
Eye miniatures or Lovers’ eyes were Georgian miniatures, normally watercolour on ivory, depicting the eye or eyes of a spouse, loved one or child. These were usually commissioned for sentimental reasons and were often worn as bracelets, brooches, pendants or rings with richly decorated frames, serving the same emotional need as lockets hiding portraits or locks of hair. This fad started in the late 1700s.
Eye miniatures are believed to have originated when the Prince of Wales (later George IV) felt the need to send the widow Maria Fitzherbert a token of his love. This gesture and the romance that went with it, was frowned upon by the court, so that a miniaturist was employed to paint only the eye and thereby preserve anonymity and decorum.
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