A wax sculpture is a depiction made using a waxy substance. Often these are effigies, usually of a notable individual, but there are also death masks...
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taken from the wax original. The approximately 10 inches (25 cm) high, 9 inches (23 cm) long, and 3.5 inches (9 cm) wide beeswax sculpture is believed to...
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A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited...
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The lost-wax casting process may also be used in the production of cast glass sculptures. The original sculpture is made from wax. The sculpture is then...
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Moulage (section Wax sculpture, use in moulage)
and wax modelling in Italy from the 16th to early 19th centuries. J. Anat. (2010) 216, pp209–222, doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2009.01157.x Wax sculpture#Use...
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sweets. Wax is also used in wax bullets, which are used as simulation aids, and for wax sculpturing. Beeswax – produced by honey bees Chinese wax – produced...
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Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (category Wax sculptures)
Little Dancer wax sculpture we see today is a reworked version of the original sculpture that was shown in 1881. After seeing the wax sculpture in Degas’...
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Marie Tussaud (category Wax sculptures)
as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London. Marie Tussaud was born...
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Madame Tussauds (redirect from The Sleeping Beauty (wax figure))
Tussauds (UK: /tuːˈsɔːdz/, US: /tuːˈsoʊz/) is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. One of the early main attractions...
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dictionary. Waxwork or waxworks may refer to: Wax museum, a museum for a collection of wax figures Wax sculpture Celastrus scandens, a plant in the family...
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Additionally, Prabhas is the first South Indian actor to receive a wax sculpture at a Madame Tussaud's museum. Prabhas was born on 23 October 1979 in...
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(after wax melting) by pins of the same metal used for casting. One or more wax sprues are added to conduct the molten metal into the sculptures - typically...
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when worked. Soft and pliable waxes, like beeswax, may be preferred for such sculpture, but "investment casting waxes," often paraffin-based, are expressly...
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the sculpture by adding wax or clay over the wire. Depending on the material and technique, the armature may be left buried within the sculpture but,...
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frequently appearing in public barefoot or wearing only flip-flops. His wax sculpture at the Madame Tussauds museum also depicts him barefooted. Patrick Henry...
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Urs Fischer (artist) (section Wax Sculptures)
Biennale. The exhibition included another wax sculpture of Fischer’s friend and fellow artist Rudolf Stringel and a wax creation of Fischer’s own office chair...
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Lost Wax) is a sculpture by Salvador Dalí created in 1979 as the model for a series of platinum, gold, silver, and bronze reliefs. The original wax sculpture...
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Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure, with a translation of Julius von Schlosser's History of Portraiture in Wax (Getty Publications...
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thirty meters in length. The final segment, DUSTPUMP, was a life-sized wax sculpture of Owens urinating onto mirrors and sand. The statue is now installed...
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Bradley began with a wax sculpture of a woman who appears to be meditating in the lotus position. She then dropped the sculpture on the floor allowing...
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fiancé. Anne Meara as Debbie. Robin Williams as Theodore Roosevelt, the wax sculpture of the 26th President of the United States dressed in his Rough Rider...
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2009-07-09. Retrieved 2011-03-15. "The Flagellation of Christ". Red Wax Sculpture. Queensland Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 2011-03-12. Retrieved...
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Wax sculpture of Al-Fayed, Madame Tussauds, London, July 2009...
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specializes in wax sculptures. He is arguably[vague] the most well known wax sculpture artist in the country[citation needed] having wax museums at Lonavala...
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statue of Trump in 2017. Madame Tussauds in New York City unveiled a wax sculpture of her in 2018. Jim Carrey drew a portrait of Trump in 2018. On 5 July...
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Kapoor with her wax sculpture at Madame Tussauds....
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Xin Zhui Marquise of Dai A wax sculpture reconstruction of Xin Zhui Dynasty Han dynasty Born c. 217 BC Died 169 or 168 BC (aged 48–49) Buried Mawangdui...
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A wax sculpture of Anakin Skywalker at the Madame Tussauds museum in London...
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physician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling. In 1777, Tussaud created her first wax sculpture of Voltaire and soon...
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