Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth‐Century Italy . By

Anatomy is best taught visually and this book describes how anatomical modelling, mainly in wax or wood but later by injection, developed in the eighteenth century, particularly in Bologna and Naples. Models kept the messy and bloody aspects of dissection to one side, and were used for public and medical demonstration, artistic teaching, and eventually as destinations for the Grand Tour. The models also acquired a value of their own.