Anatomy
Booksreview
A new publication explores how Renaissance Europe viewed and thought about skin
The detailed survey seeks to rethink how people understood, and gave meaning to, the body and its portrayal in the period
Museumsnews
Macabre wax models take limelight in Florence museum
La Specola reopens, displaying its realistic 18th- and 19th-century corpse stand-ins
Exhibitionspreview
Edinburgh show dissects the art of anatomy and delves into some of the more gruesome practices fuelling it, like graverobbing and murder
National Museum of Scotland exhibition will include works by Leonardo and Cornelis Troost as well as the skeleton of the notorious William Burke