Malleable anatomies : models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy / Lucia Dacome.

First edition.

9780191799914 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

English

1 online resource : illustrations, map.

QM11

611.0094509033

An account of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy, showing how anatomical models became an authoritative source of medical knowledge, but also informed social, cultural, and political developments at the crossroads of medical learning, religious ritual, antiquarian and artistic cultures, and Grand Tour spectacle.

An account of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy, showing how anatomical models became an authoritative source of medical knowledge, but also informed social, cultural, and political developments at the crossroads of medical learning, religious ritual, antiquarian and artistic cultures, and Grand Tour spectacle.

Includes bibliographical references.

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