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Plaster cast bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon based on a life mask cast in 1786.. A plaster cast is a copy made in plaster of another 3-dimensional form. The original from which the cast is taken may be a sculpture, building, a face, a pregnant belly, a fossil or other remains such as fresh or fossilised footprints – particularly in palaeontology (a track of dinosaur ...
The minimalist approach prescribes removing such 19th-century additions in the interest of authenticity, as has been done in Copenhagen. [ 4 ] The Ny Carlsberg museum, which has an extensive collection of Greek and Roman marble statues, participated both in 19th-century restoration and in 20th-century "de-restoration."
Cynthia Dorothy Albritton (May 24, 1947 – April 21, 2022), better known by the pseudonym Cynthia Plaster Caster, was an American visual artist and self-described "recovering groupie" who gained fame for creating plaster casts of celebrities' erect penises. Albritton began her career in 1968 by casting penises of rock musicians.
An 1867 polychromed plaster version, used as a master to cast other bronze versions of the bust, was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2022. [3] [4]1868 bronze versions are in the permanent collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, [5] the National Museum in Warsaw, [6] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
There has been a short but proud history of vagina-related works on display during Miami Art Week over the years: the whimsical inflatable vagina of 2019, the 12-foot neon orgasming vagina of 2018.
Bust of Nefertiti; c. 1345 BC; limestone and plaster; height: 48 cm, width: 20 cm; Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human body, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. The bust is ...
The plaster cast of the sculpture is exhibited in the halls of the Russian Museum. A copy of the sculpture was presented by the wife of Emperor Nicholas I, Alexandra Feodorovna, to her brother, Prince Friedrich Karl Alexander of Prussia. It was installed in the Glinik Palace near Potsdam, but disappeared during the World War II. It has since ...
Restored plaster cast at the National Gallery of Art A plaster cast, which was exhibited at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition , is displayed at the National Gallery of Art , [ 13 ] on loan by the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire . [ 14 ]