A general view of the reconstructed<unk><unk>  The<unk>  is a hall once used for anatomy lectures and displays held at the medical school in Bologna, Italy that used to be located in the Palace of the<unk> , the first unified seat of the University of Bologna. A first<unk><unk>  was constructed in 1595, in a different location, but it was replaced by a bigger one built between 1636 and 1638 in the current location, following the design of the architect Antonio Levanti. The ceiling and the wall decoration were completed from 1647 to 1649 but only the lacunar ceiling dates from this period, with the figure of Apollo, the god of Medicine, in the middle, surrounded by symbolic images of constellations carved in wood. The<unk>  underwent several modifications and reached its final shape between 1733 and 1736. In this period, Silvestro Giannotti carved the wooden statues which decorate the<unk>  walls. They represent some famous physicians of ancient times (Hippocrates, Galenus, etc.) and of the local athenaeum (Mondino de Liuzzi, Gasparo Tagliacozzi-holding a nose in his hand, as he had been the first to attempt reconstructive plastic surgery). The two famous statues of the “Spellati” (skinned) are the work of the well-known artist of<unk>  wax displays, Ercole Lelli. The statues carry the canopy, surmounting the teacher’s chair, and topped by the allegorical image of Anatomy. In the centre of the<unk>  stands the white table on which the dissection of human or animal bodies took place. The<unk>  was almost completely destroyed during the Second World War, by an air raid on January 29, 1944. After the war the<unk>  was rebuilt with exemplary philological rigour, using all of the original pieces recovered among the rubble of the building.
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