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1985.64.62. [edit on Wikidata] The original wax sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (French: La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans) is a sculpture begun c. 1880 by Edgar Degas of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem.
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 and scenes with many figures, mostly in relief. The properties of beeswax make it an excellent medium for preparing figures and models, either by modeling or by casting in molds.
Bronze sculpture. The Victorious Youth (between 4th-2nd centuries BC), is a rare, water-preserved bronze from ancient Greece. Chinese ritual bronze, a Late Shang dǐng. Benin bronze of a woman's head. Gilt-bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral (Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1401–22). 9th-century bronze vessel in form of a snail shell ...
Protective elements for bronze fountains are particularly important, since water is one of the leading causes for alterations or corrosion in a bronze. [2] Bronze sculptures incorporated in fountains will need more layers of wax, because the spray of water will cause deterioration of the wax at a faster pace than would normally happen.
Wax statues depicting effects of the plague, La Specola, Florence. Gaetano Giulio Zumbo (1656–1701) was an Italian sculptor in wax or wax modeller of the Baroque era. His primary talents were not those generally considered as artistic but devoted to the creation of scientific models that were highly regarded as curiosity pieces in his time.
Lost-wax casting – also called investment casting, precision casting, or cire perdue (French: [siʁ pɛʁdy]; borrowed from French) [1] – is the process by which a duplicate sculpture (often a metal, such as silver, gold, brass, or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture. Intricate works can be achieved by this method.
Madame Tussauds (UK: / t uː ˈ s ɔː d z /, US: / t uː ˈ s oʊ z /) [1] [N. 1] is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. [2] [3] One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, which appeared in advertising in 1843.
This may be done by hand, water blasting, air abrasion, or other methods. Then, a wax or wax composite is applied to the sculpture in sweeping motions. Finally, the wax is buffed with a cotton cloth. [6] Ceramic sculptures: Ceramic sculptures are much less common than bronze sculptures, and require a different conservation and maintenance ...