The art, craft, or technique of creating sculptures, models, or decorative objects by molding wax.
Plural or mass noun form of ceroplastic, referring to the broader practice and field of wax-molding as an art form and technical discipline.
Ceroplastics was so respected that anatomist Paolo Mascagni created 3,000 wax models in the 1700s—each one took weeks and they were basically the medical textbooks of their time!
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