For 10 points, name this material which was used in the hyper-realistic sculptures made by Madame Tussaud.
One work made of this material is Maurizio Cattelan's The Ninth Hour, a sculpture of Pope John Paul II being crushed by a meteor. The 16th century Italian sculptor Antonio Abondio was best known for his relief portrait miniatures made of this material. The Romans used this material to design the "imagines," depictions of a dead person's ancestors used for funerary rites. The Greek artist Pausias is traditionally held to have first mixed this material with pigment, inventing (*) encaustic painting. This material is said to be "lost" in a method in which a model sculpted with it is used to create a mold that molten material is poured into. One sculptor in this material used it to create death masks of Marie Antoinette and Robespierre during the Reign of Terror. For 10 points, name this material which was used in the hyper-realistic sculptures made by Madame Tussaud.
One work made of this material is Maurizio Cattelan's The Ninth Hour, a sculpture of Pope John Paul II being crushed by a meteor.
wax [or: beeswax]