Het geheim van de anatoom: Adolphe Burggraeve en de ontwikkeling van de
                        Belgische anatomie in de negentiende eeuw

Deblon, Veronique; Huistra, Pieter

doi:10.18352/studium.10138

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Between Life and Death: The Preparations Of Adolphe Burggraeve1

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“…Indeed, like Ruysch, Burggraeve adorned his preparations with textile decorations and kept his conservation method a secret. 31 The purpose of the textile decorations was twofold: Firstly, it was meant to cover up mutilated body parts, as was its function in the seventeenth century. 32 The autopsy scars on the body of the newborn infant, for example, were concealed by the christening dress.…”

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Overcoming Death: Conserving the Body in Nineteenth-Century Belgium

Deblon

Wils

2017

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and Its Timings

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The start of the nineteenth century coincided with the development of a new aesthetics of death. Funerary rites became more elaborate; cemeteries and tombstones were increasingly adorned, and corpses were embellished before their burial. At the centre of this beautification of death movement was a new individualised and "sentimentalised" relationship with the dead. 1 Paying respect and tribute to the personhood of the deceased became an important aspect of mourning and funeral culture. At the same time, a more romanticised view of the afterlife was portrayed with an emphasis on the promise of reunion in life after death. 2 In European funerary culture, the "death as sleep" metaphor became a popular representation of death as it allowed mourners to separate the idea of death from a final state of being and corresponded with the Christian narrative of resurrection. In this narrative, the transition from life to

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confidence: 99%