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
Richard Saunders (anatomist) Richard Saunders (anatomist) Prof Richard Lorraine de Chasteney Holbourne Saunders FRSE FRMS (1908–1995) was a 20th century South African anatomist. He received international acclaim for his x-ray and electron microscopy investigations of neurological conditions. He was born in Grahamstown in South Africa the son of Col Frederick Anastasius Saunders (an army surgeon) and his wife, Lucy Anderson Meiklejohn. Richard studied Medicine at Rhodes University then Edinburgh University graduating MB ChB in 1932 and gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1940 with a dissertationon spina bifida. He lectured in Anatomy at Edinburgh University 1933 to 1937. In 1937 he emigrated to Canada