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Ceroplastics : the science of wax
366 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- The art of wax modelling or ceroplastics has an ancient origin, from early Egyptian, Greek and Roman times. It was re-discovered between the 13th - 14th centuries in Florence with the cult of votive offerings; with the advent of Neoclassicism it extended into a more scientific environment, flourishing in the study of normal and pathological anatomy, obstetrics, zoology and botany. On the 7th and 8th June 2019, the 2nd edition of the International Congress on Wax Modelling took place in the University of Padua. The meeting followed that held in September 2017 at the Gordon Museum of Pathology, King's College London. In June 2019, the major institutions related to the art of Wax Modelling met again in Padua; the congress was divided into two study days dedicated to the history, conservation, restoration and technique of this ancient art, which has recently come back into vogue.
- The event was organised by the University of Padua, under the patronage of CAM - University Centre for Museums, the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and the National Association of Scientific Museums (ANMS).This conference proceedings: "The Science of Wax" offers a comprehensive overview of many different aspects of wax modelling, including: History (Major Collections), Anatomy and Science (Anatomical/botanical models), Art and Portraiture (Effigies, Portraits, Waxworks, Funeral Masks, Votive Offerings), Conservation and Restoration (maintaining, cleaning, repairing), Techniques and Contemporary Art. [Publisher's text]
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- Proceedings of a conference held in Padua, Italy, June 7-8, 2019.
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Informations
ISBN: 9788891320292
COLLECTION
VEDETTES-MATIÈRE
- Human anatomy -- Models -- History -- Congresses
- Wax-modeling -- History -- Congresses
- Wax figures -- Congresses
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Dans ce volume
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- The wax models of the gynaecological and obstetric clinic of the University of Padua
- Plague : from palæopathology to wax modelling
- Anatomical wax modelling in modern Egypt : Leon Gatineau, his craft and his contribute to ceroplastic technique
- Art & Science between Life & Death
- Travelling exhibitions and wax makers on the move : anatomies in early 19th-century Barcelona
- What Ziegler did not provide – the embryological plate models of the laboratory of anatomist Lodewijk Bolk
- Further anatomical findings in the wax models of Susini and Boi at the University of Cagliari
- The anatomical waxes in the early stage of smallpox vaccinations
- Wax models in Barcelona : from university anatomical sculptors to makers of dermatological waxworks
- Scientific ceroplasty in Milan : new research acquisitions
- The teaching of phytoparasitology in the collections of the Istituto Tecnico Toscano of Florence
- Italian fungi models : a teaching aid to avoid mushroom poisoning in the XIX century
- Reviving a neglected collection through collaborative knowledge production : the case of the Stockholm moulages
- Finger Faces : Wax Hand Models and Moulages in Medicine
- Following the tracks of the past : the recuperation of the Olavide Museum
- Dermatological moulages – the artists behind the objects
- The degradation of the anatomical wax models of “La Specola” Museum as a result of a demixing process
- Anna Morandi : Bolognese ceroplastics between practice and theory
- Waxing and Waning : The curious case of an early Eaton's wax displaymannequin
- From the Doge's funeral masks to the ‘children with no names' : the art of wax modelling in Venice
- Wax Artefacts in the Kunstkammer of Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-1595) at Ambras Castle
- Cast, Not Modelled : the Importance of Understanding Materials and Processes in Medardo Rosso's Waxes
- Rescue of ancient pigments for the current ceroplastic technique, performed by the Mexican artisan Marco A. Miranda
- A new sculpture Commission for the Wellcome Galleries of Medicine, Science Museum London
- Rethinking and reinterpreting the 18th – 19th century wax models of the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia's Museum Centre (In studiis artistarum project)
- A CAPITE AD CALCEM : Anatomical models become the face of a literary and multimedia project
- The masks of Lorenzo Tenchini at the University of Parma : their legacy to the modern concepts of facial transplantation, additive layer manufacturing, and facial recognition algorithms
- Ceroplasty's Future : The Plastinates of Gunther von Hagens' BodyWorlds and the Visual Language of Modernity
- Illustrations
- Annex : Congress Programme