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
Anna Elisabeth Hartwick lace to the queen, Louise of the Netherlands, and the Swedish court. Anna Elisabeth Hartwick Anna Elisabeth Hartwick (1796-1882) was a Swedish lace industrialist. She lived in Vadstena, which had a long history of professional lace making. In the 18th-century, individual makers of bobbin lace sold their works to peddlers, but in the 19th-century, this small scale industry developed in to a lager industry dominated by Anna Elisabeth Hartwick and her main rival Catharina Lidman (1792-1856). Hartwick bought up lace from many of the lace makers of Vadstena and had them sold through her shop and through sails persons employed