Published June, 2017
By Lucia Dacome
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: The Past and Present Book Series
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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.

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