Ephemeralia

What we know of the Renaissance are paintings and sculptures made of permanent materials--bronze and marble, mostly. But there were so many others lost to us today.

Most famously, and written of in Marina Belozerskaya's Medici Giraffe (among other places) was a snowman created from the ever-innovative hands of Michelangelo. And beyond this, there were sculptures made of ice and sugar to entertain the highest of courtly patrons.