The Body Worlds exhibit is really popular here in PA right now....
it brings to mind an 19th possibly early 20th century doctor/scientist that I once learned about. And for the life of me, cannot remember his name!
All I can remember is that he was (illegally) digging up bodies and injecting them with wax....turning them into human sculpture. One of his better know pieces was that of a man on a horse. (Affectionately named the "horseman of death" or something like that...as I recall) I believe he was eventually arrested for his "art".
Also! I -think- that copy-cat (maybe real) versions of his figures are in the glass cases at the end of the basement stairs in the 1999 re-make of "House on Haunted Hill". (as I remember the body on the horse)
Please please....if anyone can recall his name, let me know! It has been making my head hurt all night!
I was close, the horse and man are called "The Horseman of Apocalypse"....taken from one of Durer's works (which I should know cause I've studied him).
Man, it is so hard to find anything on him cause I just keep getting stuff from the painter Jean-Honore Fragonard. Who is sooooooo not the same guy. heh
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SUICIDEGIRL
Pennsylvania, USA
NOV 08, 2005 08:46 PM