Introduction: the body in wax, the body of wax / Roberta Panzanelli
Compelling presence: wax effigies in Renaissance Florence / Roberta Panzanelli
Wax fibers, wax bodies, and moving figures: artifice and nature in eighteenth-century anatomy / Joan B. Landes
Almost alive: the spectacle of verisimilitude in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks / Uta Kornmeier
On waxes and wombs: eighteenth-century representations of the Gravid Uterus / Lyle Massey
Wax tokens of libido: William Hamilton, Richard Payne Knight, and the Phalli of Isernia / Whitney Davis
Fleeting revelations: the demise of duration in Medardo Rosso's wax sculpture / Sharon Hecker
Viscosities and survivals: art history put to the test by the material / Georges Didi-Huberman
Appendix: History of portraiture in wax ("Geschichte der Porträtbildnerai in Wachs" 1910-11) / Julius von Schlosser.
