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SUMMARY:Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 
 1900 - Nick Hopwood (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:David Allan Feller
DESCRIPTION:Anatomist holds model embryo: A marble portrait from 1900\n\nE
 mbryo images have in the last few decades acquired extraordinary and contr
 oversial prominence in biomedicine and the wider culture. Yet an art work 
 from a century ago can still surprise. In 1900 the Leipzig sculptor Carl S
 effner made a marble bust of the anatomist Wilhelm His\, the founder of mo
 dern human embryology\, holding a model embryo in his right hand. Rather t
 han straightforwardly signalling the subject’s achievements\, the unusua
 l accoutrement doubtless puzzled many viewers more than did the professor 
 himself. The talk will discuss the design of this double portrait and reco
 nstruct its display in art exhibitions and other settings. This should sug
 gest some relations between embryology and portraiture and shed light on h
 ow the identities of embryologists and embryos have changed.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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