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- Title
The Body Inside‐Out: Anatomical Memory at Maubuisson Abbey.
- Authors
Hartnell, Jack
- Abstract
The now destroyed Abbey of Maubuisson, situated just northwest of Paris, was a religious foundation that over the centuries crafted a uniquely visceral visual culture. By charting a long history of the institution from its medieval foundation to its early modern demise, this essay looks to Maubuisson's bodies – figures formed of painted wood, marble, gilded copper, and raw preserved flesh – in order to unearth a long‐standing proclivity at the abbey for flipping the human form inside‐out. Maubuisson brings to light a new context with which we might begin to read medieval and early modern objects: a case study in the folding together of medicine, religious ritual, and sculpture into a distinctive form of institutional, anatomical memory.
- Subjects
CISTERCIAN art &; symbolism; FRENCH church history; ABBEYS; CISTERCIAN nuns; FRENCH art; HISTORY of material culture; BLANCHE, of Castile, Queen, consort of Louis VIII, King of France, 1188-1252; MARY, Blessed Virgin, Saint, in art; VIERGES ouvrantes (Sculpture); DEATH &; burial of kings &; rulers; MEDIEVAL medicine
- Publication
Art History, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 2, p242
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8365.12425