Thursday 4th of September
Palace of School of Medicine
Anatomical collections
Provisional Programme
08:00–09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Official Opening – Dr. Ana Carolina Sepulveda
Dr. Nuria Diaz
Dr. Roberta Ballestriero
09:30-10:00 Fausto Barbagli, Marta Biaggini, Chiara Nepi (Online)
Art and Science. The new section dedicated to wax models of the La Specola Museum, in Florence
10:00-10:30 Dr. Mariblanca Ramos Rocha (In-person)
Anatomical Models for Teaching in the Dermatology Chair in the XIX Century.
10:30–10:50 Coffee Break
10:50–11:20 Martina Peters (Online)
The 2019–2022 Renovation of the Josephinum and its Anatomical Wax Model Collection
11:20–12:50 Prof. Roberto Toni, Dr. Fulvio Barbaro (Online)
The anatomical clinical legacy of Lorenzo Tenchini and his unique anatomical collection at the University of Parma
12:50–14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Dr. Carlos Viesca Treviño (In-person)
The Josephinum hospital of Vienna.
14:30-15:00 Eleanor Crook (In-person/online?)
The making of a new public sculpture for London and the wax modelling techniques employed for bronze.
15:00-15:30 Dr. Gabino Sánchez Rosales, Juan Carlos Ortiz Castillo (In-person)
Anatomical Models and Medical Education at the National School of Medicine of Mexico.
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-16:20 Alma Hannig (In-person)
The Bonn Moulage Collection and Provenance Research: Balancing the Handling of Sensitive Objects and Data with Research and Exhibition Practice
16:20-16:50 Adres Aranda (In-person)
Wax, a material in the history of medicine
16:50-17:20 Dr. Roberta Ballestriero (In-person)
Eternal Flora: wax botany at the Imperial and Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History in Florence
Friday 5th of September - morning
Palace of School of Medicine
Arts and Wax
09:00-09:30 Dr. Roberta Panzanelli (In-person)
Waxing and Waning. A Tale of Florentine Ex-votos
09:30-09:50 Sara Bessi (Online)
The restoration of the wax Pietà by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi from Ginori Museum. Research and experimentation on synthetic formulations and cold-fill materials for the reconstruction of losses in ceroplastics.
09:50-10:10 Enrica Leydi (In-person/online?)
Antonio Serantoni: Life and Adventures of a Wax Modeller with His Creations
10:00-10:20 Anna Luppi (Online)
Recasting a liquid memory with AI
10:20–10:40 Coffee Break
10:40–11:00 Dr. Minerva Deyanira Anguiano (In-person)
There is no more wax than that which burns
11:00–11:20 Dr. Miguel Otero Zúñiga (In-person)
"The Wax and the Sinister"
11:20-11:40 Emiliano Ortega Rousset (In-person)
Ceroplastic sculpture, invention and survival
11:40-12:00 Rosa María Rojas Navarrete (In-person)
"Wax Craft in Guanajuato: History and Contemporary Practice"
12:00-12:20 Moira Ambrosi (In-person)
Understanding the formation of efflorescence on wax models at the Natural History Museum of Florence.
12:20-12:40 Norma A. Garcia Huerta (In-person)
Restauración de modelos anatómicos de cera: experiencia técnica y descubrimientos en el Palacio de Medicina.
12:40-14:00 Lunch free
Friday 5th of September - afternoon
Palace of Iturbide
14:00-14:20 Montserrat Andrea Báez Hernández (Online)
‘Tripisciano Modeled, Fasulo Produced’: The Discovery of a Body-Reliquary from Caltanissetta in Mexico.
14:20-14:40 Ángel Peña Martín (In-person)
And the candle bloomed. An approach to the study of curly and flower candles in Spain
14:40-15:00 Alicia Bazarte Martínez (In-person)
The bee had great magical-religious importance in pre-Hispanic Mélica
15:00-15:20 Rafael Hernandez Viquez (In-person)
The wax masks in Mexican popular traditions
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:00 Mtro. Marco Antonio Miranda Razo, Alicia Bazarte Martínez (In-person)
Crown of profession and death
16:00-16:20 Norma Alicia Hernandez Flores (In-person)
The poetics of encaustic
16:20-16:40 Rosana Duffour Vivanco (In-person)
Wax doll in Mexico: Challenges in Documenting Its Development and Cultural Significance
16:40-17:00 Mtro. Marco Antonio Miranda Razo (In-person)
From the continent to the content: the ceroplastic cabinet
17:00 Exhibition
Saturday 6th of September
Palace of School of Medicine
Anatomy and learning
09:00-09:20 Dr. Laura Cházaro García (Online)
The Vasseur Models of the Palace of Medicine
09:20-09:40 Francesco Loy (Online)
Scientific value of the anatomical characteristics in the Clemente Susini’s wax models at the University of Cagliari.
09:40-10:00 Elisa Lodolo (Online)
Modelling the Human Body: Art, Science, and the Bolognese Ceroplastic School
10:00-10:20 Veronica Gonzalez Illescas (In-person)
Reflections on the 19th-Century Wax Modelling Tradition in Mexico and the Absence of Local Scientific/Medical Production
10:20-10:40 Annagiulia Gramenzi (Online)
Reading the body: the 19th century pygopagus conjoined twins at the “Luigi Cattaneo” Collection between wax, bone and CT scans.
Coffee Break 10:40–11:00
11:00-11:20 Francesco Maria Galassi, Elena Varotto (Online)
The origins of wax modelling in the ancient world and the role of Roman funerary masks.
11:20-11:40 Sabina Carraro, Johanna Stierlin (Online)
Wax models and Human remains: tracing a compelling history
11:40-12:00 Daniela Abigail Benitez Rangel, C. Hazel Sanchez Ramirez (In-person)
The creative response, Pedagogy through art, taking as a sample the 19th century Wax room of the Old Palace of the Inquisition, current Museum of Medicine of the UNAM
12:00-12:20 Jorge Augusto Carreta (Online)
The uses of ceroplastics at the Faculty of Medicine of University of São Paulo
12:20-12:40 Alfons Zarzoso, Nuria Benitez (Online)
The waxes of the Museo Anatómico de Sanidad Militar of Madrid. An evanescent story.
12:40-13:00 Aldo Giovanni Beltran Pardo (In-person)
The anatomic ceroplastic and retrospective analysis of anatomy learning
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:20 Claudia Corti (Online)
The plaster cast collection of the “La Specola Museum” in Florence
14:20-14:50 Dr. Martha Eugenia Rodríguez (In-person)
XIX-century medicine, the construction of the body.
14:50-15:10 Mario Pablo Martinez Fabre, Susana Maria Guerrero Sampede, Ilda Rosa Caeiro Arias (Online)
Bodies of art and science: technical and artistic evolution of anatomical models to the present day
15:10-15:30 Marcos Gutiérrez de la Barrera (In-person)
Physical modelling for “sensorization” in human embryology learning and research
15:30-15:50 Nina Sellars (In-person)
Apprehension: the digital animation of Tramond
15:50-16:10 Tere Chadwick (In-person)
Wax role in public art: a malleable media facilitating dialogues
16:10-16:30 Karen Koka (In-person)
The Mayo Clinic Wax Model Collection: Updates on Research
