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Source Description
This figure is part of a "family" of three figures thought to have been made for a physician so that his patients could point to what hurt. The figures were not meant to stand. Their feet are angled as they would be if they were lying down. In the 1600s, people did not take their clothes off for a doctor. A well-bred woman would have blushed even to describe a part of her body, but she could point to it.
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Document identity
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8393
label
Anatomical Figure of a Woman
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title
Anatomical Figure of a Woman
description
This figure is part of a "family" of three figures thought to have been made for a physician so that his patients could point to what hurt. The figures were not meant to stand. Their feet are angled as they would be if they were lying down. In the 1600s, people did not take their clothes off for a doctor. A well-bred woman would have blushed even to describe a part of her body, but she could point to it.
provenance
San Giorgi, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1600-1650 (Renaissance)
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CC0
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en
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Metal
figurines
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5
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5
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 11 5/8 in. (29.6 cm)
Source extras
RelatedObjects
16386
38517
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cast bronze
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6211
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REN
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34
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