Wax statue

At last year's Venice Art Biennale, one of the standout installations involved a full-size wax replica of Giambologna's 16th-century sculpture The Rape of

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This wax sculpture of a sleeping woman was made with several wicks, turning her into a giant candle (not to be mistaken for the soap woman of the Mutter Museum).…

By Susanne K. Arnold Medardo Rosso As an organic medium beeswax has the unique ability to simulate the look, touch, and feel of human flesh. From earliest times, artists and craftspeople took advantage of these qualities to create lifelike reproductions of the human head and body as objects for devotion, commemoration, scientific study, entertainment, and art. After the Renaissance wax was considered too fragile a medium for finished sculpture and was ignored by the history books. By the…

Nicola Godden ~ Icarus Rising VIII. Bronze sculpture, edition of 9. height 88 cm.

Rebecca Stevenson- coldrose

swiss artist urs fischer sculpts a larger-than-life wax sculpture of dasha zhukova, presented at london's gagosian gallery.

Crying Virgin Mary