Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy
by
Lucia Dacome
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the 'mania' for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, and traces the fashioning of anatomical models as important social, cultural, and...