Mortality in Wax: Hellish Tableaus from the 17th & 18th Centuries
Morbid Anatomy recently shared an entry posted to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s blog last October called Welcome to Hell! with some incredible and macabre depictions of death in wax. These highly detailed and unnerving scenes were memento mori, serving as reminders of mortality.
Here are some of the gruesome wax reliefs in the museum’s collection
