Model experts : wax anatomies and enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815 / Anna Maerker
2011, 1st edition. Manchester ; New York New York : Manchester University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #385300
ISBN: 9780719082054
Physical description; 252 pp., 4 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (some color), portraits, 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction: model practices and expertise in state service -- The politics of nature and the foundation of the Royal Museum -- Bodies and the state in eighteenth-century Tuscany -- Accuracy and authority in model production -- Model reception and the display of expertise -- The rejection of the Florentine anatomical models in Vienna -- Regime changes in Tuscany and at La Specola, 1790-1814. Subjects; Museo zoologico La Specola (Florence, Italy). Human anatomy Models Italy Florence History 18th century. Wax-modeling. Enlightenment. Physicians. Politics Austria and Italy.
Price: €85.00