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Rebecca Messbarger

Director of Medical Humanities
Professor of Italian

Affiliate Professor of History, Art History, Performing Arts, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Washington University in St. Louis

Publications

Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment:
Art, Science, and Spirituality

The Contest for Knowledge

The Lady Anatomist: The Life and
Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini

The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse

Select Articles and Reviews

Waxing Poetic: Anna Morandi Manzolini's Anatomical Sculptures

The Re-Birth of Venus in Florence's Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History

Anna Morandi's Self-Portrait with Brain

Reforming the Female Class: Il Caffe's "Defense of Women"

Re-membering a Body of Work: Anatomist and Anatomical Designer Anna Morandi Manzolini

Review of Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Families and Masculinities. (Gender in History.)

by Sandra Cavallo

Review of The Art of Medicine: Over Two Thousand Years of Images and Imagination

by Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, Emma Shackleton

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