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Museo delle cere anatomiche "L. Cattaneo"

Where Via Irnerio, 48, Bologna

Set up in 1908 at the Graduate Institute of Human Anatomy, illustrates the path taken by the scholars of medical sciences in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they have acquired the knowledge of the true nature of the human body, when they turned on the investigation of its pathologies. Popularly called "Anatomical Wax" because it exposes models representing parts of the human body created to facilitate the study of anatomical medical, preserves the anatomical collections of the Museum of normal and pathological, formed between 1742 and 1790 the first, between 1804 and and 1893 the second. And 'named after Luigi Cattaneo, Professor of Anatomy of the University, whom we owe the rediscovery and restoration in the seventies of the original collections of Anatomy, heavily damaged by the bombing of World War mondiale.Conserva the collection of the Cabinet of the anatomy of 'Institute of Sciences, founded in 1742 by Benedict XIV who commissioned the pieces to the anatomist Ercole Lelli (1702-1766). Among the sculptures on display, accompanied by the relevant preparatory panels, worth reporting the eight statues of Flayed Ones, size, aimed at the study of superficial and deep muscles of man; Adam and Eve, created in collaboration with Domenico Piò Toselli and Ottavio and Anna Morandi Manzolini, the famous series of hands, and the Self-Portrait Bust of John Manzolini, author of the fetus with umbilical cord and placenta. Fine workmanship is also the core of nineteenth-century wax Clemente Susini and Giuseppe Astori. Annexed to the museum is the collection of Luigi Calori, which was founded in 1860, consists of more than one thousand five hundred human skulls, including the supposed Athalaric skull, found in 1838 in Barbianello on the hills of Bologna and the collection of models of waxes and prepared Cleaning of the former Museum of Pathological Anatomy "Taruffi Caesar."

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