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TitleBack of Male Torso

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1880

Creation date (description)Cast 1930

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsBronze

DimensionsLength 30 1/4 in.

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/49068.html?mulR=2033579077|1

Accession number1944-35-13

SubjectsHuman anatomy--ModelsHuman anatomy--Study and teachingHuman dissection

StatusAnatomical plaster cast after dissection fragment

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1. The Body and Difference: Artistic Anatomy and the beau idéal

Anthea Callen

Looking at Men: Anatomy, Masculinity and the Modern Male Body

François Sallé’s The Anatomy Class (fig. 1.1) is a large-scale modern history painting celebrating the work at the École des Beaux-Arts of Dr Mathias-Marie Duval, anatomy professor from 1873 to 1903...

Author

Anthea Callen

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.28-63

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00297.2

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Chapter subject tags:Human anatomy--Study and teachingAnatomy, ArtisticMasculine beauty (Aesthetics)Human dissectionPhotography--Scientific applications

3. Body Casts and "Anatomical Eyes": Thomas Eakins, William Williams Keen, and the Curriculum at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Amy Werbel

Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

In 1893, Dr. William Williams Keen found himself in a distinguished, though presumably nerve-wracking, position. Floating on a private yacht in Long Island Sound, Keen assisted in the removal of a cancerous tumor from the mouth of Grover Cleveland. Because Cleveland was president at the time, and undoubtedly considered his condition nobody’s business but his own, Keen waited until 1917 to discuss the secret operation. In that year, he proudly wrote about the procedure in the Saturday Evening Post …

Author

Amy Werbel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.53-85

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00168.006

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Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Human anatomyPennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsPainting, American--19th centuryKeen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932

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