Description
Book SynopsisModel 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. Model Experts reveals the human relationships, controversies, and political projects which surrounded the artificial bodies. -- .
Table of ContentsList of figures and plates
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Model practices and expertise in state service
Part I: Politics of nature and politics of the body
1. The politics of nature and the foundation of the Royal Museum
2. Bodies and the state in eighteenth-century Tuscany
Part II: Articulating expertise in everyday practice
3. Accuracy and authority in model production
4. Model reception and the display of expertise
Part III: Changing model contexts and interpretations
5. The rejection of the Florentine anatomical models in Vienna
6 Regime changes in Tuscany and at La Specola, 1790-1814
Conclusion
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