Wax Sculpture - Use in Moulage

Use in Moulage

The modeling of the soft parts of dissections, teaching illustrations of anatomy, was first practiced at Florence during the Renaissance. The practice of moulage, or the depiction of human anatomy and different diseases, utilized wax as its primary material (later to be replaced by latex and rubber). During the 19th century, moulage evolved into to three-dimensional, realistic representations of diseased parts of the human body.