From Nature

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Sir John Goodsir was a Scottish anatomist and had a considerable talent as a body cast sculptor, as shown in this work 'From Nature' which was attributed to him. The fibreglass work was created in the 19th century as a plaster cast of an anonymous, partially dissected body.  The dramatic pose of the limp figure, lying prone with his back arch, resembles both Michelangelo's 1499 'Pieta' and Jacques-Louis David's 'The Death of Marat' from 1793, raising questions of beauty in artistic representations of the dead body.  

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Surgeons Hall
Surgeons’ Hall Museums reopened in 2015 after a major £4.4 million Heritage Lottery Funded redevelopment project. As one of the oldest Museums in Scotland, the collections grew from 1699 after 'natural and artificial curiosities' were publically sought, with the Playfair Building opening in 1832 to house the Barclay and Bell collections. Whilst the Museums were initially established as a medical teaching resource, all are now welcome to visit.

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