Orochimaru's Forbidden work...

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

>:) I was re-watching episode 72 tonight (because it's Orochi tastic!) and was again fascinated by the research of Orochi. I am a medical historian, and many of my heroes were men who dissected. So I made a few icons with a favourite quote of mine that seems to sum up what Orochi seems to feel about his forbidden work.


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:) The quote is; "I was not afraid to snatch in the middle of the night what I so longed for" (Andreas Vesalius, anatomist, 1514-64)

The text that runs under and over the images in number 1 is from the diary of a London resurrectionist called Josh Naples and details the grounds, the subjects and the buyers.


xposted to my journal. ^^

Comments

[anime-fanatic19.livejournal.com]

oooooh, they're awesome. taking #2. nice job!

[sarinthesky.livejournal.com]

^_^

(this sounds completely wrong, but..)
*fangirls Vesalius for putting the world to rights after Galen"

lovely!

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Oh, Vesalius was fabulous! He had a great sense of theatre and a lot of courage and it was what was needed to really shake things up. :)

[argh4itchytasty.livejournal.com]

You are getting many, many ♥ from me. That's simply genius.

[ryals-shoal.livejournal.com]

Wow, Orochi-tastic! By any chance are you studing to be a mortician? Many friends of mine are ^_^

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

I'm a medical historian! *^^* I study and talk about this stuff, so Orochi's dissections intrigue me. The scene in the anime differs from the same scene in the manga where you can see all the bodies; but I actually prefer the anime versions. Al the things in jars - it's very Hunterian (John Hunter was the 18th centuries greatest anatomist, imho!)

[ryals-shoal.livejournal.com]

Then I have a question for you!

There's a museum somewhere in Europe that stores a collections on preserved bodies with the muscular and nervous systems exposed and wonderfully preserved (he might have used a wax preservative method)...not only that, but the bodies themselves are posed. I am aware of a modern museum in Germany that hosts modern examples made from donated bodies, though the pieces that I have mentioned stemmed from a anatomist sometime in the late 18th-19th centuries. Might you know his name?

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're probably speaking of Fragonard, cousin to the famous painter; he was a magnificent anatomist and did indeed pose and present his bodies as sculpture, a trend quite common in the world of 18th century European anatomy.

Fragonard's collection, pretty much all that is left behind of him as he had some pretty determined rivals, is in a museum in Paris. No one's quite sure what exact method Fragonard used, but his sculptures are pretty impressive considering their age. His most famous piece is the horseman.

I think Sasori would also probably appreciate this as art. ;)

[ryals-shoal.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I remember reading of rumors that the rider on the horse was his dead lover or fiance. Its actually a young boy.

An aunt and uncle of mine lived in Naples for a while, there they visited a house which contained several preserved bodies in the basement. The master of the house at the time 100 years ago indulged in the trend of preserving bodies. Apparently, the bodies belonged to his servents, whom he prepared for preservation by slipping poisons into their foods which eventually killed them as a result.

[thomasvye.livejournal.com]

Yes, the rider is male; the story about it being his lover was spread by rivals trying to make out he was mad. >,<

That's pretty crazy about the house in Naples!