Deftones - Wax And Wane

The relationship of the disgraced count with the fine arts was also peculiar. When he was in Italy, he took sculpture lessons and learned to professionally make wax and plaster copies of famous statues and busts, mostly antique. The graph-sculptor could be proud that he was able to earn his own bread with his own hands. In Vienna, he began to create wax portraits, including members of the imperial family. The similarity was frightening, but the effect was far from artistry, and sometimes even repulsive. After Mozart's death, it was Count Dame who removed the plaster mask from him; the original is now lost, but a copy is exhibited in the St. Michael's Church in Vienna, where the first performance of the Requiem took place.