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The statue, on display at Saint-Étienne church in the French city of Bar-le-Duc, is known as a “transi.” Popular in western Europe during the Renaissance, the art form depicts a deceased person during the transition between life and death—the corporeal husk of a departed soul. It’s a particularly impactful memento mori.From the late 14th century onward, some tombs were also adorned with recumbent transi sculptures. In contrast to the usual serene depictions of eternally sleeping saints, these “cadaver tombs’ showed the effects of death in stark detail. The effigy of French doctor Guillaume de Harsigny is emaciated and noseless, while Belgian sculptor Jacques du Broeucq’s 16th-century "l'homme à moutons” (“man eaten by worms”) shows a decaying body riddled with the wriggling creatures.A Look at the Striking “Transi” Corpse Sculptures. 

Source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/09/24/transi_statues_and_cadaver_tombs_memento_mori_of_renaissance_europe.html?wpsrc=fol_tw 

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Kynstkamera. St. Petersburg, Russia. “It is said that this Museum of Medical Oddities was started by Peter the Great in 1714 in an effort to bring Russia out of the dark ages of superstition”

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Madame Dimanche, also known as Widow Sunday, was a French woman living in Paris in the early 19th century. At the age of 76 she began to grown a 24.9cm horn from her forehead before it was successfully removed by a French surgeon. A wax model of her head is on display at the Mütter Museum.

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Lyre, 19th century. Medium: human skull, antelope horn, skin, gut, hair. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 (89.4.1268)

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This remarkable 18th-century wax anatomical model comes from the Javier Puerta Museum, and was recently on display as part of the “Arte y Carne” Exhibition this past May in Madrid. It’s similar to one I posted a few days ago, but this one depicts twins. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when few bodies were available for dissection. They very much represent the merging of science and art which characterized the Enlightenment.

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ORCHID LOVES PIG DESTROYER

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姫野あちか (Achika Himeno)

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Devil marking the witch in Häxan (1922)