Giuseppe Ferrini
Giuseppe Ferrini (fl. 18th century) was a Florentine model-maker.
He was commissioned by the Florentine surgeon and obstetrician (died 1819) to build a series of terracotta and wax obstetrical models for demonstrating different forms of childbirth to medical students, surgery students, and students at the School of Obstetrics. Ferrini worked in the renowned anatomical laboratory run by the abbot Felice Fontana (1730-1805). Grand Duke Peter Leopold (1747-1792) asked Fontana to set up the Museo di Fisica e di Storia Naturale of Florence.[1]
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- ^ Panzanelli, Roberta, and Julius Ritter von Schlosser. Ephemeral bodies: wax sculpture and the human figure. Getty Publications, 2008. p89
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