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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 ...
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 death mask of 18th century sailor Richard Parker Golden funeral mask of Tutankhamun Posthumous portrait bust of Henry VII of England by Pietro Torrigiano, supposedly made using his death mask. A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from ...
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.
Arguably, had he not done this, the gist of what was said would not otherwise be known at all—whereas today there is a plethora of documentation—written records, archives, and recording technology for historians to consult. Therefore, Thucydides's method served to rescue his mostly oral sources from oblivion. We do not know how these ...
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Lewis then made plaster-cast reproductions of the bust and sold one hundred of these copies at 15 dollars apiece. [43] It was her most famous work to date and the money she earned from the busts allowed her to move to Rome. [44] [45] Anna Quincy Waterston, a poet, then wrote a poem about Lewis and Shaw. [46]
Still life with plaster casts, made by Daguerre in 1837, the earliest reliably dated daguerreotype [note 2] To exploit the invention, 400 shares would be on offer for 1,000 francs each; secrecy would be lifted after 100 shares had been sold, or the rights of the process could be bought for 20,000 francs.