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Show 1'alntlng on Human SIcin. Marcus Lorenzzo, an Kalian painter, paint-er, who flourished in the last century, once paid 200 francs for a piece of human skin no larger than a dinner plate upon which to execute a landscape land-scape in oils. The skin, which was chemically prepared to receive the paint, was taken from the back of an aged woman, whose body had been sold to a medical man for dissecting experiments. The human parchment was drawn tightly over a metal frame and the artist spent nearly seven months in producing a painting that was afterward exhibited in various salons, sa-lons, and ultimately realized the sum of 84,000 francs. |
