Τετάρτη 30 Ιουλίου 2014

Gaetano Giulio Zumbo (1656-1701)


Gaetano Giulio Zumbo (1656-1701) was an Italian sculptor in wax or wax modeller of the Baroque era. His main talents are not those generally considered as an artistic, but would now be viewed as the creation of scientific models, but they were highly regarded as curiosity pieces in his time. He created a series of five morbid models, almost a memento mori, depicting the progressive Corruption after death, beginning with a dying man, followed by a corpse, a corpse just starting to decompose, half corrupt, another completely corrupt, and finally eaten by worms. Ηe travelled to Paris, and there presented to the Academy of Sciences, a wax sculpture of the head with naturalistic depiction of veins, arteries, nerves, glands, and muscles.






effects of the plague

wax diorama depicting dead from plague placed in a pit, attributed to Gaetano Giulio Zumbo 






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