Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy is a unique and impressively informative coffee-table style art book

- Obverse: Bust of Emperor Augustus

and provides much-needed insight into what life was like for this trailblazing artist of seventeenth-century Spain

The most telling aspect may be the furrowed brow above squinting eyes and a scrunched nose

Introduction by Paolo Prodi

Rosalba Carriera rabbit Flesh and Bones: The ArtAngela Oberer This stunning new volume is the first accessibly written, illustrated, English language biography of Rosalba Carriera, one of the most famous women artists in eighteenth century Europe. Born in Venice in 1673 to a lawyer and a lace maker, Rosalba Carriera began her career painting decorative objects and rose to international renown as a portraitist in Italy, Germany, France, and England. In 1757 she died nearly blind from cataracts, a