Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, many of them with free online access.
Search for free, downloadable images taken from our library and museum collections, including paintings, illustrations, photos and more.
Wax male anatomical figure showing the muscles of the body,
- Science Museum, London
- Digital Images
- Online
Available online
Licence
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
You can use this work for any purpose, including commercial uses, without restriction under copyright law. You should also provide attribution to the original work, source and licence.
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) terms and conditions https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Credit: Wax male anatomical figure showing the muscles of the body,. Science Museum, London. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Selected images from this work
About this work
Description
The skin has been removed from this male anatomical wax model to show the muscles and the bones of the legs and arms. This model is part of a series showing the internal structures of the body. The life-size versions were used in the Zoological Museum of the University of Florence, known as La Specola, by the Grand Duke of Tuscany to teach students anatomy.
The series of models was probably made by Clemente Susini (1754-1814), a wax modeller renowned for his accurate anatomical detail. Models were particularly important at a time when there were few bodies available for dissection; those that were available were difficult to preserve. Models could also be used to pick out and emphasise certain features, in this case the muscles.
maker: Susini, Clemente
Place made: Florence, Firenze, Tuscany, Italy