Wax Portrait! Pretty, pretty, pretty

I found the most interesting object while browsing the collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art today



Portrait of a Woman in Venetian Dress, possibly Bianca Capello

Possibly made in Italy, Europe
Late 16th to early 17th century

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/44066.html?mulR=30954|75

I love the wonderful luminosity of the wax.