Dissected Graces

from Nautilus The Brief, Mystical Reign of the Wax Cadaver Early medical models of human anatomy shrouded death in feminine beauty. BY JOANNA EBENSTEIN Image courtesy of Museo Della Specola, Florence, Italy / Bridgeman Images Toward the end of the 18th century, in a wax workshop in Florence, a life-sized, anatomically correct, dissectible goddess of […]