Launch Pad: Silversmithing, Sculpting in Wax

This video was created for LaunchPad, a program of digital interpretive materials that supplement the viewing of works of art on display in the Art Institute of Chicago s galleries. In this series of four videos, silversmith Ubaldo Vitali reveals the process of creating a reproduction of Hans Ludwig Kienle s Rearing Horse and Rider, 1630. Here, Vitali sculpts the figures in scarlet colored wax. Check out Part 2 at