Thanatology is the scientific study of death and the losses brought about as a result. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death, such as bodily changes that accompany death and the
Autopsy (1890) by Enrique Simonet
Enrique Simonet Lombardo was a Spanish painter.
Thanatology
…Autopsy (1890) by Enrique Simonet Thanatology is the scientific study of death and the losses brought about as a result. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death…
Bronze First Class medal 1896 by the III Exhibition of Fine Arts and Artistic Industries, Barcelona; given for Simonet's Flevit super illam [es]
¿Y tenía corazón? (And she had a heart!) 1890 by Simonet; depicts an anatomist grasping a young woman's heart in a morgue reflecting increased Parisian interest in life and death
The Judgement of Paris 1904 by Simonet; depicts the Greek myth in which Paris chooses Aphrodite as the fairest woman against Athena and Hera leading to the seduction of Helen and the Trojan War