Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815

by Anna Maerker (Author)

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  Paperback
  2015

  $27.67

  Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. It reveals the human relationships, controversies, and political projects which surrounded the artificial bodies. -- .