Ballestriero, Roberta (Editor)
Burke, Owen (Editor)
Zampieri, Fabio (Editor)
L'Erma di Bretschneider
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
Physical Details: 370 pp.
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. 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.
...MoreChapter Michael Sticherling (2022) Dermatological moulages – the artists behind the objects. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 185-196).
Chapter Laura Faustini; Stefania Lotti (2022) The teaching of phytoparasitology in the collections of the Istituto Tecnico Toscano of Florence. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 121-132).
Chapter Laurens de Rooy (2022) What Ziegler did not provide – the embryological plate models of the laboratory of anatomist Lodewijk Bolk. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 67-78).
Chapter Marco Antonio Miranda Razo (2022) Rescue of ancient pigments for the current ceroplastic technique, performed by the Mexican artisan Marco A. Miranda. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 271-276).
Chapter Andrea Cozza; Giovanni Battista Nardelli; Maurizio Rippa Bonati (2022) The wax models of the gynaecological and obstetric clinic of the University of Padua. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 19-30).
Chapter Amaya Maruri Palacín; David Aranda Gabrielli (2022) Following the tracks of the past: The recuperation of the Olavide Museum. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 175-184).
Chapter Alfons Zarzoso; Pardo Tomás, José (2022) Travelling exhibitions and wax makers on the move: anatomies in early 19th-century Barcelona. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 55-66).
Chapter Martina Raudino; Giuseppe Pieraccini; Monica Galeotti; Claudia Corti; Moira Ambrosi (2022) The degradation of the anatomical wax models of 'La Specola' Museum as a result of a demixing process. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 197-208).
Chapter Sharon Hecker (2022) Cast, Not Modelled: The Importance of Understanding Materials and Processes in Medardo Rosso’s Waxes. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 261-270).
Chapter Fulvio Barbaro; Giusy Di Conza; Giulia Toscani; Manuela Antoniel; Pietro Setti; Elena Caddeo; Enrico Quarantini; Marco Quarantini; Marina Gorreri; Roberto Toni (2022) 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. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 311-318).
Chapter Fabio Zampieri; Giovanni Magno; Alberto Zanatta (2022) The anatomical waxes in the early stage of smallpox vaccinations. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 85-96).
Chapter Alessandro Porro; Paolo Maria Galimberti; Daniela Bellettati; Bruno Falconi; Lorenzo Lorusso; Antonia Francesca Franchini (2022) Scientific ceroplasty in Milan: new research acquisitions. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 107-120).
Chapter Nuria Díaz; Nuria Galland (2022) A capite ad calcem. Anatomical models become the face of a literary and multimedia project. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 303-310).
Chapter Bruno Lastersi; Pascale Pollier; Ann Van de Velde; Bryan Green (2022) Art & Science between Life & Death. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 47-54).
Chapter Nicolò Nicoli Aldini; Emanuele Armocida; Alessandro Ruggeri (2022) Anatomical wax modelling in modern Egypt: Leon Gatineau, his craft and his contribution to ceroplastic technique. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 39-46).
Chapter Roberta Ballestriero; Fausto Barbagli; Stefania Lotti (2022) Italian fungi models: a teaching aid to avoid mushroom poisoning in the XIX century. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 133-148).
Chapter Elena Corradini; Chiara Mascardi (2022) Rethinking and reinterpreting the 18th–19th century wax models of the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia's Museum Centre (In studiis artistarum project). In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 289-302).
Chapter Kimberly Johnson (2022) Ceroplasty’s Future: The Plastinates of Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds and the Visual Language of Modernity. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 319-330).
Chapter Eleanor Crook (2022) A New Sculpture Commission for the Wellcome Galleries of Medicine, Science Museum London. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 277-288).
Chapter Lucia Corrain; Ottavia Mosca (2022) Anna Morandi: Bolognese ceroplastics between practice and theory. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 209-222).
Chapter Alfons Zarzoso; Chloe Sharpe (2022) Wax models in Barcelona: from university anatomical sculptors to makers of dermatological waxworks. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 97-107).
Chapter Thomas Schnalke (2022) Finger Faces. Wax Hand Models and Moulages in Medicine. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 159-174).
Chapter Eva Åhrén; Sabina Carraro (2022) Reviving a neglected collection through collaborative knowledge production: the case of the Stockholm moulages. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 149-158).
Chapter Konrad Schlegel (2022) Wax Artefacts in the Kunstkammer of Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-1595) at Ambras Castle. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 251-260).
Chapter Laura Cunningham (2022) Waxing and Waning: The curious case of an early Eaton’s wax display mannequin. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 223-240).
Chapter Roberta Ballestriero; Marco Tosa (2022) From the Doge's funeral masks to the 'children with no names'. The art of wax modelling in Venice. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 241-250).
Chapter Francesco M. Galassi; Elena Percivaldi; Luigi Ingaliso; Veronica Papa; Elena Varotto (2022) Plague: from palæopathology to wax modelling. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 31-38).
Chapter Francesco Loy; Michela Isola (2022) Further anatomical findings in the wax models of Susini and Boi at the University of Cagliari. In: Ceroplastics: The Science of Wax (pp. 79-84).
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