Part I: Anatomical models in artistic training: sculpted, living, and dissected. Anatomy in the drawing room at Felix Meritis Maatschappij in Amsterdam: between skin and bones, theory and practice / ...

They were reclining beauties with ecstatic expressions – and lift-out intestines. Enter the necrophiliac world of 18th-century anatomical models It is a truism of sitcoms that, whenever there’s a ...

Anatomical Venus: Wax anatomical figure of a reclining woman, Florence, Italy (image from the Wellcome Collection via Wikimedia). What is the relationship between sculpture, medicine, and the ...

Blank canvases fill the intimate space of an art studio, which is focused on a wooden stage in the front of the room. Students are propped up in their seats waiting to begin class. Charles Coffman ...

SOME 230 years after the body of a hanged highway robber was turned into a sculpture, an intriguing pair of exhibitions aim to shed light on his identity and the history of anatomical art, discovers ...