Wax models in Barcelona : from university anatomical sculptors to makers of dermatological waxworks

P. 97-106

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • 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
• Information

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