At 17 Via Romana, Florence, there is a unique museumof 18th-century anatomical waxes. Walls are lined with
hundreds of faintly animated body parts, each modeled
from dissection. Life-size women wearing wigs recline on
beds of embroidered silk in cabinets of mahogany and
Venetian glass This is a detail of a compressed charcoal
drawing measuring 14 x 10 ft (4.3 x 3 m) made in
response to La Specola. These almost life-size figures
were composed from my imagination and achieved
with the help af studies discussed on pp. 126-27.