#Frederik Ruysch

[curiositycabinetofel]

There they are. My little meow meows precious wee kittens dearest ducklings. ALL evil and ALL bitches

[darkacademiaarchivist]

according to like all the papers i've been reading about it there was / is a lot of discourse about whether Frederik Ruysch should be considered and artist or a scientist and i say it completely goes hand it hand, it doesn't have to be either or... he clearly did a lot of things that went beyond scientific curiosity but also made so much scientific progress so yeah... both

[stigmatam4rtyr]

Anatomy Lesson by Prof. Frederik Ruysch (1670, oil on canvas) | Adriaen Backer

[publicdomainreview]

The Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, known as the "The Artist of Death", met his own death #onthisday in 1731. Why the nickname? This engraving of one of his remarkable "still life" displays gives a clue. More in Luuc Koojimans' essay: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/frederik-ruysch-the-artist-of-death #OTD

[pwlanier]

The anatomy of Dr Frederick Ruysch. Oil painting by B. F. Landis,1909-1910, after Jan van Neck, 1683.

On the right, Frederik Ruysch, in his capacity as Praelector Anatomiae to the Amsterdam guild of surgeons, lifts the umbilical cord of a dead infant to demonstrate its connexion between the infant's body and the placenta. On the extreme right, Ruysch's son holds one of Ruysch's mounted skeletons of a baby.

Neck, Jan van, 1635-1714.

Wellcome Collection

[blood-darkened-moon]

Real Art in The Evil Within - Part 1

Have you ever looked at the paintings in video games and asked yourself if these are real paintings? I’m kind of fascinated by random background paintings in video games and tried to identify some of them. Here are real paintings you can find in The Evil Within. Almost all of them are displayed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Aert Pietersz – Anatomy lesson of Dr Sebastiaen Egbertsz; between 1601 and 1603

Adriaan de Lelie – Geertje Hagen (1714-1798) - Vrouw aan tafel; 1791

Joachim von Sandrart the Elder – Portrait of Eva Geelvinck; 1639

Jan van Neck – Anatomy lesson of Dr. Frederik Ruysch; 1683

Hendrik Keun – The Keizersgracht between Molenpad and Runstraat with the house of Thomas Hope; around 1753-1787

Johannes Warnardus – Farmstead; between 1826 and 1980

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen – An ox as an Archery prize; 1564

Kaspar Karsen – The Old Amsterdam Stock Exchange by Hendrick de Keyser; 1836

Corrado Pila – Altmeisterlicher Blumenstrauß; 20th century

Dirck Dircksz van Santvoort – Hiob de Wildt (1637-1704) - Gilles de Wildt (1641-1672); 1640

Jan Maurits Quinkhard – Portrait of Margaretha Trip, Wife of Hendrik van de Poll; 1754

→ Part 2

[gravehags]

truth or dare ask game:

🥐🔪🧃🍄🌻🥤🥑🛼(hehe)

yes Im nosey sshhh

🥐 this is an oldie for anyone who was a member of ONTD on livejournal but “i know bitch, i was watching” still makes me laugh and i still quote it to this day

🔪 weirdest topic researched for writing…probably for my undergrad thesis when i was originally planning to include baroque art, i did a deep dive into frederik ruysch’s tableaus of baby skeletons. somewhat related, his daughter rachel was one of the most popular dutch still life artists of the era yet most people don’t know her name.

🧃honestly idk if there is anything about me i haven’t posted lmao i am the queen of oversharing but um. don’t know if i’ve ever talked about how i was chosen as a freshman to present at the deyoung museum on the topic that three years later would become my thesis. it was typically an event only open to seniors but the head of the art history department was so impressed she made an exception :) also connected to that - my grad school capstone advisor was present and the first time i met with her she told me she remembered me and my presentation 12 years later. so keep researching that weird shit you like it will make an impression on at least one person lol

🍄 hmmm since it’s lesbian visibility week let’s go with cirrus/cumulus. i think they were aware of one another in the pit, even intrigued by one another but neither made a move. not until after they were summoned when one evening cirrus got into a scrap with dewdrop and cumulus jumped in to break it up. when dew accidentally swung on her, cirrus lost her whole shit. took aether and mountain holding her back and even then, they got scratched to shit and bit. cumulus, with her eye swollen, walked over to her and gently stroked her face murmuring reassuring words to her. dewdrop felt so guilty he apologized to not only cumulus but also cirrus. it was the last time they ever (physically) fought and every time dew saw cumulus with that black eye it made him sick to his stomach. and the girls? never slept without one another since.

🌻 someone i appreciate but don’t talk to on a regular basis wow this is a hard one. maybe not a specific person but to everyone who regularly likes or reblogs my fics, even if i don’t follow you trust me i see you 🩵

🥤there are so many people on here who are incredible writers but truly @anamelessfool and @the-lisechen blow me away every time. such beautiful prose that really gets you emotionally and they are both incredible at creating compelling OCs. cannot recommend them more.

🥑 if we lived on the same continent i’d absolutely say @forest-rot but other than them i’d say @bimbotheosis lmao she’s got a bigger car than me that can better hold a body and is close enough that it would be efficiently done

🛼 -> 🙊💦🍜🧎🏻‍♀️🪤

[espantajerias]

Enrique Simonet, La autopsia/Gabriel von Max, Der Anatom/Jan van Neck, Anatomy lesson of Dr. Frederik Ruysch.

[rosenbraut]

Marie, i was so excited about you being live that i felt utterly down when i discovered it was a feature just for app. :(

I am reading A natural history of senses, did you read it? What do you think about it? For now, she writes well but there is not much depth. Also the interview with the "nose" was a bit embarassing: what do you mean you dream of creating a perfume that makes every woman irresistable? Be more creative and weird pls!

Omg Tell me about it!!! I can’t work the app either, so I guess we’ll have to wait for something else to happen there. They should bring tumblr live back but like. Only for certified tumblrinas.

Diane Ackerman! I HAVE read it and oh boy. It’s fun in places, i remember her quotes floating around on tumblr and the flowery style being very well-liked. That’s why I read it, too, and I liked the scent chapter best, i think, but I lost all respect for her when in the taste chapter, she talks about cannibalism in tribes in (I think?) South America, only to reveal that her source are the writings of European missionaries. What do you mean you’re copying down racist Catholic propaganda as if it’s fact? I was really shocked by that.

Also I read an article she wrote on Frederik Ruysch, a scientist in 17th(?) century Amsterdam who preserved human remains in numerous ways (think in fluid, or sometimes he arranged skeletons in artful little displays with dried flowers etc). Fascinating man, the way science and (in our understanding very morbid, maybe gross) art intertwine with religion and philosophy here is very interesting. Anyhow. Her “article” (it was on jstor!!!) was a piece of original fiction where her OC, some servant girl, meets him and they talk in his cabinet and make out between the dead babies. I think it was implied they fuck. Diane Ackerman, fascinating woman that you are. What is going on!

[joseandrestabarnia]

Jarrón con flores Rachel Ruysch 1700

Este ramo ya pasó su mejor momento. Las flores están caídas y empiezan a marchitarse. En el medio, se ha cortado una adormidera marchita. El espacio vacío que queda allí le da profundidad al ramo.

Rachel Ruysch se especializó en este tipo de bodegones florales profuso. Heredó su amor por las flores y las plantas de su padre, el renombrado botánico de Ámsterdam Frederik Ruysch. Rachel tuvo una carrera internacional como pintora y trabajó hasta una edad avanzada.

información general Artista: Rachel Ruysch (La Haya 1664 - 1750 Ámsterdam) Título: Jarrón con flores Con fecha de: 1700 Numero de inventario: 151

Detalles materiales y técnicos. Técnica: aceite Material: lienzo Dimensiones: 79,5x60,2 cm Inscripciones Firmado y fechado, abajo a la izquierda, en el borde de la mesa: Rachel Ruysch F: 1700 Información e imagen de la web del Mauritshuis, The Hague.

[the-paintrist]

Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented woman painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

Rachel Ruysch was born on 3 June 1664 in The Hague to the scientist Frederik Ruysch and Maria Post, the daughter of the architect Pieter Post. Her father was also a professor of anatomy and botany and an amateur painter. He had a vast collection of animal skeletons, and mineral and botany samples which Rachel used to practice her drawing skills. At a young age she began to paint the flowers and insects of her father's collection in the popular manner of Otto Marseus van Schrieck. Working from these samples Rachel matched her father's ability to depict nature with great accuracy. Later, as Rachel became more accomplished, she taught her father (and also her sister, Anna Ruysch) how to paint.

In 1679, at age fifteen, Ruysch was apprenticed to Willem van Aelst, a prominent flower painter in Amsterdam. His studio in Amsterdam looked out over the studio of the flower painter Maria van Oosterwijck. Ruysch studied with van Aelst until his death in 1683. Besides painting technique he taught her how to arrange a bouquet in a vase so it would look spontaneous and less formalized. This technique produced a more realistic and three-dimensional effect in her paintings. By the time Ruysch was eighteen she was producing and selling independently signed works. She would also have known and consorted with the flower painters Jan and Maria Moninckx, Alida Withoos, and Johanna Helena Herolt-Graff, who all were about her age and who worked for the horticulturist Agnes Block and who, like her father, also worked with the plant collectors Jan and Caspar Commelin.

In 1693 she married the Amsterdam portrait painter Juriaen Pool, with whom she had ten children. Throughout her marriage and adult life she continued to paint and produce commissions for an international circle of patrons. Other women at this time were expected to participate in art forms more traditionally practiced by women, such as sewing and spinning. Ruysch continued working as a painter after she married, mostly likely because her contribution to the family's income allowed them to hire help to care for their children.

Ruysch died in Amsterdam on 12 October 1750. After her death, despite changing attitudes about flower paintings, Ruysch has maintained a strong reputation.

Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 1664–1750)

Flowers in a vase on a stone slab, 1704, Detroit Institute of Arts

Oil on canvas

[publicdomainreview]

Frederik Ruysch, the Dutch anatomist and “artist of death”, was born #onthisday in 1638. He was known for his remarkable "still life" displays, that blurred the boundary between scientific preservation and vanitas art. More in Luuc Kooijmans's essay: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/frederik-ruysch-the-artist-of-death #otd

[toughtofind-curiosities]

These images are from the book: Opera omnia anatomico-medico-chirurgic 1737, Ruysch, Frederik, 1638-1731

Licence: Public Domain, Wellcome Collection

Frederik Ruysch (March 28, 1638 – February 22, 1731) was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts. His anatomical preparations included over 2,000 anatomical, pathological, zoological, and botanical specimens, which were preserved by either drying or embalming. Ruysch is also known for his proof of valves in the lymphatic system, the vomeronasal organ in snakes, and arteria centralis oculi (the central artery of the eye). He was the first to describe the disease that is today known as Hirschsprung's disease, as well as several pathological conditions, including intracranial teratoma, enchondromatosis, and Majewski syndrome. Source: wikipedia

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[curiositycabinetofel]

Friendship ended with Frederick the Great. Now Frederik Ruysch is my best friend

Developed a hyperfixation on a completely obscure historical figure. No fanbase, no fanart, no interest at all. And I once thought Frederick II was too unknown

[nemfrog]

Plate IV. Thesaurus anatomicus primus. Het eerste cabinet der dieren. v.2. 1744. 

Internet Archive

[weaver-z]

Artists could really just do fucking anything back then... Frederik Ruysch was like “hmmm methinks I’ll draw still life pictures of real actual baby skeletons” and the Dutch were like Awesome We Love Your Little Doodles King