Giovanni Manzolini to become a figure painter, Manzolini joined Ercole Lelli's studio at the age of 40 to learn the art of anatomical sculpture. He was made Lelli's assistant in 1743. Under Lelli, Manzolini was made chief assistant on the papal commission to make wax models for the Anatomy Museum of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute, holding this position for three years. He resigned in late 1746. He felt bitterly that Lelli had deprived him of recognition for his greater knowledge of anatomy and anatomical sculpture. After leaving Lelli, Manzolini opened his own studio for wax modelling and launched a
Richard Saunders (anatomist) Saunders. 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