Giovanni Manzolini school of anatomy. His wife also learned how to dissect cadavers, and learned anatomy and the art of wax modeling so she could help her husband. The husband and wife team became recognized by artists and anatomists throughout Europe. Anna Moranda was the one who gave the lectures and demonstrations at the school. Manzolini was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the University of Bologna. Giovanni Manzolini died in Bologna in 1755. Anna Morandi Manzolini had been helping her husband with lectures, and after his death was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy at the university, and in 1756 was appointed Professor of
Anatomical theatre Anatomical theatre An anatomical theatre (Latin: "Theatrum Anatomicum") was an institution used in teaching anatomy at early modern universities. The theatre was usually a room of roughly amphitheatrical shape, in the centre of which would stand the table on which the dissections of human or animal bodies took place. Around this table were several circular, elliptic or octagonal tiers with railings, where students or other observers could stand and get a good view of the dissection almost from above and unencumbered by the spectators in the rows in front. It was common to display skeletons at some place in the