Malleable anatomies : models, makers and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy / Lucia Dacome.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2017.
Descrizione fisica:
XVII, 306 p., [36] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Serie:
The past and present book series
Contiene:
Indice: List of plates. List of figures. List of abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Prospero's tools 2. Artificer and connoisseur 3. Anatomy, embroidery and the fabric of celebrity 4. Women, wax and anatomy 5. Blindfolding the midwives 6. Transferring value 7. Injecting knowledge . Epilogue: Becoming obsolete. Select bibliography. Index