Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini\'s Anatomical Venus (c.
This life-sized wax woman is adorned with glass eyes and human hair and can be dismembered into dozens of parts reveali.
It - or, better, she - was conceived of as a means to teach human anatomy without need for constant dissection, which was messy, ethically fraught and subject to quick decay. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief.
Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini\'s Anatomical Venus (c