The waning of waxwork portraiture | Apollo Magazine
They’re now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty
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They’re now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty
Wax sculpture, the preparation of finished figures in beeswax by modelling or molding or the use of such figures as a form for casting metal or creating preliminary models. At ordinary temperatures beeswax can be cut and shaped with facility; it melts to a limpid fluid at a low heat; it mixes with