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A Marble Embryo: Meanings of a Portrait from 1900

Portraits of scientists use attributes of discovery to construct identities; portraits that include esoteric accessories may fashion identities for these too. A striking example is a marble bust of the anatomist Wilhelm His by the Leipzig sculptor Carl Seffner. Made in 1900, it depicts the founder o...

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Autor principal: Hopwood, Nick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3415954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbq051