Les tatouages. Etude anthropologique et médico-légale. Occident having escaped looting or destruction

having escaped looting or destruction by visitors and colonizers

articulating the mythical and legendary stories

But what is striking is the background of the composition that consumes the entire painting: a scarlet vermillion

materials and architectural principles implemented during two centuries of occupation

Les tatouages. Etude anthropologique et médico-légale. Occident having escaped looting or destructionPierced hearts, Zouaves, marine anchors, dancers Professor Lacassagne reads the skin of soldiers and convicts like an open book. Tattoos, "inked biographies," which he carefully reproduced in notebooks. These handwritten pages contain surprising and meticulous details about outlaws at the end of the 19th century. Alexandre Lacassagne has dedicated his work to telling stories of the outcast, understanding marginality, or its language: if we know how to