Original artwork description:

At the Accademia di Belle Arti I followed a course in Anatomy for Artists and this study was done at the Museo Della Specola, a 17th-century Museum of anatomical waxworks created as an aid to doctors. It is a fascinating place, full of startlingly lifelike wax models, many made from life casts, and arranged with a taste for Baroque macabre theatre.

Materials used:

Pencil on Fabriano Paper

Tags:
#wax work #torso #anatomy #chest 

Anatomical Study (1978) Pencil drawing
by Kenneth Hay

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At the Accademia di Belle Arti I followed a course in Anatomy for Artists and this study was done at the Museo Della Specola, a 17th-century Museum of anatomical waxworks created as an aid to doctors. It is a fascinating place, full of startlingly lifelike wax models, many made from life casts, and arranged with a taste for Baroque macabre theatre.

Materials used:

Pencil on Fabriano Paper

Tags:
#wax work #torso #anatomy #chest 
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Trained under Sir Lawrence Gowing in the 'Euston Road' style of direct observational painting, following Cézanne, and then under pupils of Renato Guttuso and Oscar Kokoschka at Florence Academy, my... Read more

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