Mystery- The Haunted Town Of St. Nazianz, WI

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Mystery- The Haunted Town Of St. Nazianz, WI St. Nazians was founded by a priest who wholeheartedly believed to helped cursed the town. Over the years, the town has been hit with natural disasters and unexplained phenomena. Father Ambrose Oschwald was fled to Wisconsin in 1854 from religious persecution. The Roman Catholic Church had suspended him from his duties due to “mystical, prophetic, and heretical works.” Already, the scary history of the town is starting to make sense! Oddly enough, the congregation followed him. Once they got to Wisconsin, a “divine white heifer” lead them to the site of his new home which would become St. Nazianz. The community actually thrived. They titled themselves “The Association” and created an entirely functional society. Tragically, Father Oschwald became sick in 1873. Anton Still, a loyal follower, stayed with Father Osc...
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Of all the artefacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venus

 


Back by popular demand beginning June 7, join author and Morbid Anatomy founder Joanna Ebenstein for The Anatomical Venus: Wax, Death, God and the Ecstatic, a class exploring this fascinating and complicated figure through richly illustrated lectures, readings, discussion, and a deep dive into her critically-acclaimed acclaimed book.

Reclining on velvet cushions with Venetian glass eyes, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras crowning their real human hair, Anatomical Venuses were created in eighteenth-century Florence to teach the general public about the mysteries of the human body. The Venus also tacitly communicated the relationship between the human body and a divinely created cosmos; between art and science, nature and mankind. Today, she both intrigues and confounds, troubling our contemporary categorical divides between life and death, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, entertainment and education, kitsch and art.

We will look at the history of anatomical models and their roots in memento mori-themed artworks; the use of wax was in funerary and death related arts; the ubiquity of the beautiful dead women in art, theatre, at the fairground, and in popular museums; the through-line of the ecstatic from spirituality to sexuality to drug use; the study of human anatomy; the uncanny as a product of the 18th-century enlightenment’s attempt to eliminate superstition; the body on display at the crossroads of science and spectacle; sexual fetishism including necrophilia and agalmatophilia (attraction to dolls or statues); and men who created effigies of their beloved.

In so doing, we will see how any piece of material culture might, when looked at deeply, become an object lesson—something that tells us not only about the past, and also who we have become.

 

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