Clothed wax effigies: construction materials, challenges and suggestions for preventive conservation

Wax effigies, fully dressed life-size models of human figures, have been constructed since the medieval times. The construction materials of historical effigies differ to the contemporary ones, yet the construction process of the wax parts has more or less remained unchanged over the centuries. This...

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Autor principal: Karydis, Christos (author)
Outros Autores: Kyriazi, Evangelia (author), Staka, Christina-Alkisti (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2021
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Texto completo:https://doi.org/10.14568/cp2020006
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:ojs.revistas.rcaap.pt:article/21626