"Something entirely unique, something beautiful and charming and grotesque, perhaps a little more esoteric" was how was described to me, and I believe it does live up to it. I have to say that one of the very few things that makes me uncomfortable with anatomical art is the arrangement of fetuses. That said, I do recognise that one of the best early ways to understand human development and growth was to look at nature's "mistakes" (for example, read Armand Marie Leroi's Mutan

As I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical anatomy museums. This month is the turn of the Vrolik Museum in Amsterdam. I often find these wonderful museums, seen as distasteful in recent years, has a poor website not at all reflecting the glory of its collections. Fortunately for me, there is a book, some lovely photos from morbid anatomy's blog, and mundieart, though the best photo I've se