Giovanni Manzolini Giovanni Manzolini Giovanni Manzolini (1700-1755) was a Bolognese artist, an expert maker of wax anatomical models and a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna. His wife Anna Morandi Manzolini also became a well-known maker of wax anatomical models. Giovanni Manzolini was born in 1700 in Bologna, the son of a shoemaker. As a young man he helped his father in his trade. In 1736 he married Anna Morandi (1716-1774), whom he had known since childhood. His wife had been trained as an artist. They were to have six children before 1755, although four died before reaching adulthood. Deciding
William Clark (anatomist) William Clark (anatomist) William Clark (5 April 1788 – 15 September 1869) was a British anatomist. Clark was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, a son of John Clark (died 1805). After attending a school at Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire, he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1804, graduating B.A. in 1808. He studied medicine in London, graduating M.D. in 1827. Clark served as Professor of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, from 1817 to 1866, during which time he was responsible for acquisition of an extensive museum of comparative anatomy and laid the foundations for the School of Biological Sciences at