Ercole Lelli Ercole Lelli Ercole Lelli (14 September 1702 – 7 March 1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Northern Italy, including his native city of Bologna, as well as Padua and Piacenza. Lelli was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Pietro Zanotti, but he also gravitated towards sculptural work. He excelled in the study of the anatomy of the human body as well as painting. Starting in 1742 he helped prepare artistic anatomical wax displays at the University of Bologna. The wax modeler and anatomist Giovanni Manzolini worked as his assistant from 1743. Manzolini resigned in late
Josef Engel (anatomist) anatomy,” 1859). Josef Engel (anatomist) Josef Engel (born Vienna, 1816; died 1899) was an Austrian anatomist. He was appointed professor of anatomy at Zürich in 1844 and later he became professor of physiology also. Five years afterward, he was appointed professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Prague. In 1854 he became professor of anatomy at the Josephsakademie (Josephinum), Vienna, in which position he remained until 1874. He made many important contributions to the systematization of anatomical science and its study. His principal works are "Lehrbuch der pathologischen Anatomie" (“Textbook of pathological anatomy”), and "Kompendium der topographischen Anatomie" (“Compendium