Marian University Art Professor Jenny Ambroise taught about taking Theodore Gericault's approach in drawing the collection of the Indiana Medical History Museum.  The French Romantic painter was working toward his masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa at the same time Mary Shelley published Frankenstein.  Before debuting his larger-than-life painting, Gericault studied human anatomy by checking out (like a library book) body parts from the morgue.  He painted studies of these with a naturalistic approach.  In doing so, he shocked his audience with the tension between the life of his subjects and the fact that they were ultimately dead.  CLICK ON IMAGE TO SEE IT IN ITS ENTIRETY AND VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE (REMEMBER ITS #)!