Anna Morandi Manzolini Poggi in Bologna. One is a self-portrait, in which she depicts herself at work dissecting a human brain; the other is of her husband, engaged in similar activity. Her wax models were highly prized while she was alive and long after her death. Some of her anatomical models were so skillfully molded that they were extremely difficult to distinguish from the actual body parts from which they were copied. Furthermore, her acute skill at dissection resulted in her discovery of several previously unknown anatomical parts, including the termination of the oblique muscle of the eye. She held the distinction of
Anatomical Theatre of Padua anatomical demonstrations, only in the late sixteenth century he was formally charged with the teaching of Anatomy. In 1404, during his stay in Vienna, Galeazzo di Santa Sofia undertook the first solemn public dissection, a practice he had obviously first seen and carried out in Padua. Moritz Roth, the great Vesalius Scholar, observes: The turning point would have happened thanks to the contribution of Alessandro Benedetti, an Italian anatomist: in 1514, "Anatomice sive historia corporis humani", the main of his works, was reprinted in Paris. This allowed the spread of his directives for the construction and the organization of a