Maerker, Anna (Author)
This paper investigates the reception of a set of Florentine anatomical wax models on display at the medico-surgical academy Josephinum in late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Celebrated in Florence as tools of public enlightenment, in the Habsburg capital the models were criticised by physicians, who regarded the Josephinum and its surgeons as a threat to their medical authority. The controversy surrounding these models from the empire's periphery temporarily destabilised the relationship between surgeons and physicians in the Austrian capital. The debate on the utility of the Tuscan anatomical models in Vienna highlights the fact that the centre of the Habsburg empire was by no means medically homogeneous, and that the implementation of reforms could be as difficult to achieve in the capital as in the provinces.
...MoreArticle Spary, E. C. (2012) Centre and Periphery in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg “Medical Empire”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 684-690).
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Maerker, Anna Katharina;
(2005)
Model Experts: The Production and Uses of Anatomical Models at La Specola,Florence, and the Josephinum, Vienna, 1775--1814
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Maerker, Anna;
(2011)
Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775--1815
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Barsanti, Giulio;
Chelazzi, Guido;
(2009)
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze:le collezioni della Specola: zoologia e cere anatomiche
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Konrad Schlegel;
(2022)
Wax Artefacts in the Kunstkammer of Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-1595) at Ambras Castle
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Atalic, Bruno;
(2012)
Differences and Similarities in the Regulation of Medical Practice between Early Modern Vienna and Osijek
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Per Pippin Aspaas;
(2019)
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB795507049/)
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Madalina Valeria Veres;
(2019)
Scrutinizing the Heavens, Measuring the Earth: Joseph Liesganig’s Contribution to the Mapping of the Habsburg Lands in the Eighteenth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB838741475/)
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Martina Raudino;
Giuseppe Pieraccini;
Monica Galeotti;
Claudia Corti;
Moira Ambrosi;
(2022)
The degradation of the anatomical wax models of 'La Specola' Museum as a result of a demixing process
(/isis/citation/CBB698213194/)
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Ceglia, Francesco de;
(2006)
Rotten Corpses, a Disembowelled Woman, a Flayed Man. Images of the Body from the End of the 17th to the Beginning of the 19th Century. Florentine Wax Models in the First-Hand Accounts of Visitors
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Messbarger, Rebecca;
(2013)
The Re-Birth of Venus in Florence's Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History
(/isis/citation/CBB001200290/)
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Maerker, Anna;
(2007)
“Turpentine Hides Everything”: Autonomy and Organization in Anatomical Model Production for the State in Late Eighteenth-Century Florence
(/isis/citation/CBB000773214/)
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Lotti, S.;
Altobelli, A.;
Bambi, S.;
Poggesi, M.;
(2006)
Illustrations of the Anatomical Wax Model Collection in the “La Specola” Zoology Museum, Florence
(/isis/citation/CBB000772487/)
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Francesca Monza;
Maria Gabriella Cusella;
Paolo Mazzarello;
(2019)
The Florentine Anatomical Wax Models in the Collection of Antonio Scarpa
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Moira Ambrosi;
Giuseppe Pieraccini;
Giampaolo Ermini;
Monica Galeotti;
Claudia Corti;
(2019)
The Anatomical Wax Models of the La Specola Museum: Analysis of the Degradation Process
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Maerker, Anna;
(2013)
Anatomy and Public Enlightenment: The Florentine Museo “La Specola”
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Francesco Loy;
Michela Isola;
(2022)
Further anatomical findings in the wax models of Susini and Boi at the University of Cagliari
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Maerker, Anna;
(2013)
Anatomizing the Trade: Designing and Marketing Anatomical Models as Medical Technologies, ca. 1700--1900
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Lucia Corrain;
Ottavia Mosca;
(2022)
Anna Morandi: Bolognese ceroplastics between practice and theory
(/isis/citation/CBB755689341/)
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Elena Corradini;
Chiara Mascardi;
(2022)
Rethinking and reinterpreting the 18th–19th century wax models of the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia's Museum Centre (In studiis artistarum project)
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Lucia Dacome;
(2017)
Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy
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