Question

Clemente Susini sculpted disturbingly erotically-positioned “Venuses” out of this substance, used for the study of anatomy. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this substance, used by Ercole Lelli and Anna Morandi in Bologna for sculptures ranging from écorché, or flayed, bodies to specific organs. Encaustic painting employs a pigmented form of this substance.
ANSWER: wax [or beeswax]
[10h] Susini created “Anatomical Venuses” for a director of La Specola with this surname, also shared by a Mannerist portraitist from Bologna who painted herself seated at a clavichord in a self-portrait.
ANSWER: Fontana [accept Felice Fontana or Lavinia Fontana]
[10e] This artist used wax injections to model heart valves and brain ventricles. Inspired in part by Roman theories on proportion, this artist drew Vitruvian Man.
ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci [or Leonardo da Vinci]
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