Tuesday, January 20, 2009

I Spellati

Literally, "the skinned", these two statues flank the professor's seat in the anatomical theater in the Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, the first unified seat of the University of Bologna.   First constructed in 1636, the theater was almost completely destroyed during a bombing raid in WWII and then rebuilt using the original pieces found among the rubble.  

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