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The cabinet at the Josephinum
Wax, and what print could not record. 4 pages.
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The cabinet at the Josephinum
Vienna holds one of the great teaching collections, and the cabinets themselves are part of the object.
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How a cast is taken
A mould taken from the body, filled with wax and painted from life — a process that recorded texture no print could carry.
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The conservators' bench
Wax is unstable, and keeping a nineteenth-century cast intact is continuous work.
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What a moulage was actually for
It let a student meet a rare presentation without a patient in the room, which was the entire teaching argument for making them.
