Part I: Anatomical models in artistic training: sculpted, living, and dissected. Anatomy in the drawing room at Felix Meritis Maatschappij in Amsterdam: between skin and bones, theory and practice / ...

Anatomical Venus: Wax anatomical figure of a reclining woman, Florence, Italy (image from the Wellcome Collection via Wikimedia). What is the relationship between sculpture, medicine, and the ...

Blank canvases fill the intimate space of an art studio, which is focused on a wooden stage in the front of the room. Students are propped up in their seats waiting to begin class. Charles Coffman ...

The Wellcome Collection in London is about to open a peep show – and of a kind not seen in Britain for well over a century, since the last public museum of medical waxworks was smashed to pieces by ...

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