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The Vision of Death: Wax Sculpture in the Seventeenth Century

The Vision of Death: Wax Sculpture in the Seventeenth Century

Stefanacci, Davide

Paperback

European Art

ISBN10: 1983757586
ISBN13: 9781983757587
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 26 2018
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.29 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

The seventeenth century saw a marked increase in wax sculptures across Europe. Capable of producing powerful, realistic representations of the human form and anatomy, wax was used to create anatomical models, effigies, portraits, and tableaux celebrating themes of man's mortality.

Davide Stefanacci argues that a common theme runs through seventeenth-century wax sculptures: a preoccupation with death. Through wax representations, Europeans could achieve immortality-of a sort. The grim realism the medium was capable of representing was used to promote meditative thought while the sculpture's ability to move was quickly recognized by a Catholic Church eager to control lives and keep order during the Counter-Reformation.

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