Cabinet de Curiosités d'Érik
La Danse Macabre
Le Tueuses Émeraude
créature « tueuse » , verts arsenicaux , beau-vert (copper arsenite), vert de Scheele , vert arsenical , arsonate de cuivre, vert Suédois
Une semaine après la publication de la lettre incendiaire d’Hoffman, le British Medical Journal appelait les femmes vêtues de vert : des femmes fatales « tueuses » (argot victorien pour attrayant) : « Si bien que son fascinant porteur fut appelé une créature « tueuse ». En fait, elle porte dans ses jupes un poison suffisant pour abattre tous les admirateurs qu’elle peut rencontrer en une demi-douzaine de soirées de bal. » Des militantes ont poussé les chimistes à avertir le public britannique. Les femmes riches vêtues de vert étaient désignées comme des meurtrières et ce sont des dames privilégiées issues de la même classe sociale qui ont dénoncé les dangers de la robe verte arsenicale, appelant les chimistes à soutenir leurs revendications. ~ref http://lapeaulogie.fr/pigments-empoisonnes-les-verts-arsenicaux
« Arsenic pour les ouvriers et les dames
Ses yeux profonds sont faits de vide et de ténèbres,
Et son crâne, de fleurs artistement coiffé,
Oscille mollement sur ses frêles vertèbres.
Ô charme d’un néant follement attifé. »
Charles Baudelaire, Danse Macabre.
Paris Green
RGB 80, 200, 120
Hex #50C878
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Vert de Scheele
RGB 71, 136, 0
Hex #478800
phosphorus > phossy jaw poision
Paris France World Fair Portugal Rue des Nati...
Year: 1878
http://www.past-to-present.com/photographer.cfm?lastname=PETIT&indice=64&fp=0
Une semaine après la publication de la lettre incendiaire d’Hoffman, le British Medical Journal appelait les femmes vêtues de vert : des femmes fatales « tueuses » (argot victorien pour attrayant) : « Si bien que son fascinant porteur fut appelé une créature « tueuse ». En fait, elle porte dans ses jupes un poison suffisant pour abattre tous les admirateurs qu’elle peut rencontrer en une demi-douzaine de soirées de bal. » Des militantes ont poussé les chimistes à avertir le public britannique. Les femmes riches vêtues de vert étaient désignées comme des meurtrières et ce sont des dames privilégiées issues de la même classe sociale qui ont dénoncé les dangers de la robe verte arsenicale, appelant les chimistes à soutenir leurs revendications. ~ref http://lapeaulogie.fr/pigments-empoisonnes-les-verts-arsenicaux
« Arsenic pour les ouvriers et les dames
Ses yeux profonds sont faits de vide et de ténèbres,
Et son crâne, de fleurs artistement coiffé,
Oscille mollement sur ses frêles vertèbres.
Ô charme d’un néant follement attifé. »
Charles Baudelaire, Danse Macabre.
Paris Green
RGB 80, 200, 120
Hex #50C878
Get pigment Here
Vert de Scheele
RGB 71, 136, 0
Hex #478800
phosphorus > phossy jaw poision
Paris France World Fair Portugal Rue des Nati...
Year: 1878
http://www.past-to-present.com/photographer.cfm?lastname=PETIT&indice=64&fp=0
Cabinet of Curiosities
Chamber of Art and Curiosities, Ambras Castle where many rarities, scientific instruments, musical instruments, unique portriats who at the time were considered "Wonder of Nature" but would now be considered deformed or aflicted by a gentic disorder or disease. Famouse for it's portraits of a family with and extream version of Hirsutism called Ambras syndrome or Hypertrichosis, which is exsess hair growth something nick named the Werewolf syndrome from the almost wolf like apearence. Other Cabinet of curiosities that inspired Erik's Torture chamber Here
Unbreeched
In other words a little boy who did not wear breeches. From the mid 16th century until the late 19th or early 20th century little boys wore dresses until they reached the age of 2-8. Breeching was a time were a little boy would then start to wear breeches and the father's became more involved with their life. Little boys look forward to this time of right of passage with excitement. The reasoning behind little boys wearing dresses was due to the lack of toilet training. Little boys could not undo complicated trouser buttons. Both girls and boys would wear bonnets with ribbons. By the 19th century the unbreeched period shorted and normally stoped by age 2-3. The working class as well as the wealthy class put their boys in dresses. Wealthy families dress their young children in mostly white, frilly dresses. The wealthier the family, regardless of gender, would dress their children in elaborately lacy and frilly dresses.
Enfants Morts
Dead Children
I was dead even before I was born.
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Infant mortality rate was very high, 50% of the children would dye by age 5. If the child didn't die from chewing on arsenic laced wall paper or Scheele's green clothes, lead pained toys, health remedies laced with all sorts of fun ingredient such as heroin, they could always parish by the baby bottle given to them by their own mother. It is sad but true. The original baby bottles, newly advertised in a ladies magazine of the day and perceived as a good idea. At a time when only rich ladies could afford a wet nurse, and with elaborate corsets making is hard to nurse newborns a bottle that practically fed the child it's self was a much welcomed miracle until it started causing the deaths of thousands of children . This time the rubber nipple was the culprit trapping bacteria in a very hard to clean bottle. Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management was a very popular book for ladies that had advice on all things a women needed to know including how to rear a child. Sadly Mrs. Beeton suggested that it was not necessary to wash the rubber nipple for two or three weeks. This of course allowed bacteria to grow, with weeks worth of warmed milk residue and old saliva it was a breeding ground for deadly bacteria. Eventually the they got the nick name "murder bottles"
Memento mori
'remember that you must die'
Memento mori comes from Latin and is an artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death.