The Body Inside‐Out: Anatomical Memory at Maubuisson Abbey
Jack Hartnell
The now destroyed Abbey of Maubuisson, situated just northwest Paris, was a religious foundation that over the centuries crafted uniquely visceral visual culture. By charting long history institution from its medieval to early modern demise, this essay looks Maubuisson's bodies – figures formed painted wood, marble, gilded copper, and raw preserved flesh in order unearth long‐standing proclivity at abbey for flipping human form inside‐out. Maubuisson brings light new context with which we might begin read objects: case study folding together medicine, ritual, sculpture into distinctive institutional, anatomical memory.
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