THE VISION OF DEATH: Wax Sculpture in the Seventeenth Century by Davide Stefanacci

THE VISION OF DEATH: Wax Sculpture in the Seventeenth Century

Davide Stefanacci

112 pages 2018

2 editions

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For seventeenth-century European society, death was a constant presence, a preoccupation reflected in the wax sculptures of the period. This fixation is seen in wax tableaux celebrating themes of man’s mortality—and in wax portraits and effigies, ...

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