Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – The ‘Carlaween’ countdown continues with “The Living Dead” 💀 I’ve been to Naples twice as it’s a fabulous destination for what’s known as Dark Tourism, so here are the two ‘anatomical machines’ in the Capella Sansevero. The skeletons – one male and one female – are known as ‘machines’ although they don’t actually move. It’s just that their bones and vessels have been preserved and replicated incredibly well, and they have additions (like the eyeballs), so they’re a bit more like ‘machine’ than man. The female is pregnant and there was also a foetus on display but it was stolen – sometime in the 1970s, I think. This Adam and Eve are both in glass cases which state they were made by Giuseppe Salerno in around 1764 and even after all these years historians don’t know exactly how the vessels were preserved. It’s thought that mercury was included in the injected substance which then hardened (as that was common in corrosion casts at the time) and the metallic element may be why they are called ‘machines’. However another theory is that they’re real skeletons wrapped in beeswax, iron wire, and silk. Either way they are astounding to look at and redolent of the Walking or Living Dead
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#anatomymuseum #histmed #conservator #naples #anatomicalmachines #monstermonday #livingdead #walkingdead #thewalkingdead #halloweencountdown | Posted on 29/Oct/2024 00:55:10