Clemente Susini
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Clemente Michelangelo Susini was an Italian sculptor who became renowned for his wax anatomical models, vividly and accurately depicting partly dissected corpses. These models were praised by both doc
Medallion of Clemente Susini
The "Venerina", displayed in the Museum of Palazzo Poggi, Bologna
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Palazzo Poggi
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The Palazzo Poggi is a palazzo in Via Zamboni 33, Bologna, Italy. It is the headquarters of the University of Bologna and of the rector of the university.
Clemente Susini
…Susini's Vénus anatomique was more an artistic masterpiece than a medical one. The Venerina ("little Venus"), at the Anatomy and Obstetrics Museum in the Palazzo Poggi, Bologna, is a sensual model of the body of a young pregnant woman whose trunk holds removable layers that reveal her internal organs. Another group…
View of the palace c. 1750
Ceiling of Sala of David by Prospero Fontana
Seventeenth-century globe by Vincenzo Coronelli (Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna)
University library