Interest in anatomical wax models spread throughout Europe during the 18th century, first in Bologna with Ercole Lelli, Giovanni Manzolini and Anna Morandi, and then in Florence with Felice ...

Over the centuries numerous collections of wax anatomical models were created throughout the world. It is due to their scientific, rather than artistic, worth that these models have been spared ...

We’ve gathered some of the more curious anatomical models throughout history. From wax-injected limbs, to ivory parturition dolls, the collision of art and science was key to understanding our bodies ...

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens. Le Musee des Moulages. A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

LONDON --Madame Tussaud has some sensationally gruesome new competition in the wax-museum world. The Wellcome Collection has amassed vintage syphilitic heads, psoriasis-inflicted limbs and ...

And in 2023 a selection of the wax models travelled to Milan for an unusual “guest museum” exhibition with the Fondazione Prada, ... along with anatomical models in wood and papier-mâché, ...

Resurrecting the Anatomical Venus: Death, sex and ecstasy intersect in 18th-century dissectible wax women Salon talks to the author of a new book on the Enlightenment's most famous memento mori ...

We’ve gathered some of the more curious anatomical models throughout history. From wax-injected limbs, to ivory parturition dolls, the collision of art and science was key to understanding our bodies ...