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The following are notes from the Death Art & Anatomy conference at the University of Winchester (05062016)

ROBERTA FUSCO: PUTRIDAIRA (STRAINER ROOM) AND DRAINING PRACTICES OF THE BODIES. ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEATH IN THE MODERN AGE

ROBERTA BALLESTRIERO: FROM THE ‘PLAGUE’ TO THE ‘VANITY OF THE HUMAN GLORY’: THE “THEATRES OF DEATH” OF GAETANO GIULIO ZUMBO

18th cent. the plague. collector of victims, white bandage, smell, ant’infection. 1630 plague in milano. mattia preti – plague in naples (mirror image – mother and monato). domenzio gargiulo piazza mecerrello duratela peste del. laca giordono – san gennard frees naples. nicholas poussin the plague at atoing. original images traveled freely, quickly. marcantono roimodi Il Morbetto (after raphael, 16th cent.) 2nd theatre – the triumph of time. vivid livid tone of skin (red is only living body) human anatomy is quite convincing. portrait of zumbo next to red foot.