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Roberta Ballestriero

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Associate Lecturer
in MA Art & Science,
University of the Arts, London.
Art Historian in residence,
the Gordon Museum of Pathology, London

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Title: “From Flesh to Wax. The ‘ceroplastics body’ throughout history, science, religion and literature”
 

Eleanor Crook


Sculptor and artist in residence, Gordon Museum, Guy's Hospital London 
Lecturer, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University.

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Title: “Immortality wax. A volatile material”

Francis Wells

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Cardiothoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge.

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Title: “Wax Anatomies: 3-D printing of the Enlightenment”

Pascale Pollier

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Medical Artist, AEIMS President (European Medical Artists Association)

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Title: “The body in Pieces” 

Fausto Barbagli

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ANMS President National Association Scientific Museums, Italy.
Museum of Natural History, University of Florence, Zoology Section "La Specola"
 
Title: “Waxes and Enlightenment: the anatomy for the people”

Christiane Druml

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UNESCO Chair on Bioethics of the Medical University of Vienna

Director of the Josephinum - Medical Collections, Medical University of Vienna

 

Title: “The anatomical wax models of the Josephinum in Vienna”

Chiara Gabbriellini 

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Freelance restorer

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Title: “Diagnostics, preservation and restoration of the main Italian collections of anatomical pathological and botanical waxes"

Johanna Lang

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Technical University Munich / Freelancing Conservator, Munich

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Title: "The so-called Anatomical Wax Cabinet at the German Hygiene-Museum Dresden. Past and present of a rare ensemble seen from the conservator’s point of view"

Holly Trusted

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Senior Curator of Sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Title: "German waxes in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum"

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Sharon Hecker

 

Independent Art Historian and Curator, Milan

 

Title: "Flesh Not Too Solid: Medardo Rosso, Wax, and the Origins of Modern Sculpture"

William G. J. Edwards

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Curator- Gordon Museum, Senior Tutor, Deputy Director EMDP, Kings College London, Guy’s Campus Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and Dental School at Guy's, Kings & St.Thomas' Hospital's, London

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Title: “The Gordon Museum; Wax models to Wifi; The UK’s exemplar of cutting edge Medical Education”

Francesco Maria Galassi

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M.D., Assistent and Principal Investigator of "The Italian Paleopathology Project", Institut für Evolutionäre Medizin, Universität Zürich

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Title: “Wax modelling at Bologna: an epic journey through morphology and pathology”.

Konrad Schlegel

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Curator of early modern sculpture from north of the alps, Kunstkammer and Schatzkammer, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.

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Title: “Julius von Schlosser and the collection of wax objects in the Kunstkammer of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien“

Stephen Mansfield

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Principal Sculptor

Madame Tussauds/Merlin Magic Making

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Claudia Corti

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Curator Anatomical Wax Collection Museum of Natural History University of Florence,
Zoology Section "La Specola" Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia "La Specola"

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Title: “The ceroplastics collections of the La Specola of Florence”

Martina Peters

 

Conservator at the Josephinum, Collections of the Medical University of Vienna.

 

Title: “The whole body standing models at the Josephinum – new challenges in the conservation”

​Laura Speranza

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Director of Restoration Ceramic, Plastic and Glass Materials. Polychrome Wood Sculpture Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence, Italy. 

 

Title: “Cellini, Giambologna, Zumbo and their works in ceroplastics. The long experience of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence between methodology and experimentation”

Valerie Kaufmann 

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Senior Conservator/Restorer at Plowden and Smith Ltd, London.

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Title: "Restoration – some problems, some techniques"

Victoria Oakley

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Head of  Objects Conservation Section, Conservation Department, Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Title: "Conservation of wax objects at the V&A"

Ruth Richardson

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Writer in Residence, Gordon Museum, KCL Guy’s Campus

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Title: "Jewels in the Crown at the Gordon Museum: Joseph Towne's Extraordinary Anatomical Waxes".

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