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From the eccentric Museo La Specola in Florence comes this amazing collection of waxworks depicting the human anatomy in all its dazzling complexity. The 27 wax bodies and 1500 part and organ studies that make up the museum’s collection are presented here; from skeletons to vein structures, organs to nerves, and arteries to the delicate pores of the skin, the human body is mapped out in meticulous and exacting detail. Texts explaining the human anatomy in laypersons’ terms and exploring the historical and cultural significance of the wax figures complete this “total body experience.”

QY 35 Molding and casting of anatomic models. Moulages --- Models, Anatomic --- History of Medicine --- History, 18th Century --- Anatomy --- Macroscopic, incl. comparative --- anatomie --- 743 --- kunst --- la Specola --- wasmodellen --- with contributions by Monika v. Düring, Georges Didi-Huberman, Marta Poggesi ; photographs by Saulo Bambi --- 600.51 --- encyclopedieën --- exacte wetenschappen --- 705.8 --- Anatomie - Cel- en weefselleer --- kunstgeschiedenis, 20e eeuw --- Macroscopic, incl. comparative. --- geneeskunde --- history [discipline] --- geschiedenis --- anatomiemodellen --- medicine [discipline]