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How Rodin found beauty in deformity Did a grisly medical museum inspire the twisted forms that led the sculptor to his breakthrough? 1 May 2021 • 12:00pm Critics compared Rodin s tiny sculptures of hands and limbs, which he called giblets , to exhibits in museums of anatomy and pathology Credit: Musée Rodin Art and science seem chalk and cheese in our own time, but scroll back 150 years and they were enthusiastic bedfellows. Any swish soirée in Vienna or Paris would have included as many neurologists as novelists, and nobody batted an eyelid when, in London in August 1881, specimens relating to a lavish medical congress were exhibited next to the Royal Academy of Art in a temporary “museum”. ....