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...
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management. Plaster casts consist of a cotton bandage that has been combined with plaster of paris, which hardens after it has been made wet. Plaster of Paris...
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pseudonym Cynthia Plaster Caster, was an American visual artist and self-described "recovering groupie" who gained fame for creating plaster casts of celebrities'...
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Death mask (redirect from Plaster life-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 the corpse. Death...
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or plaster cast. Fiberglass is generally preferred, as it is stronger than plaster and significantly lighter. It also dries faster than plaster casts.[citation...
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dissipating the shear forces, and preventing injury. Modern cast saws date back to the plaster cast cutting saw which was submitted for a patent on April 2...
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of plaster have several other uses. In medicine, plaster orthopedic casts are still often used for supporting set broken bones. In dentistry, plaster is...
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The Skookum cast is a plaster cast showing the imprint of what appears to be a large animal. It was discovered in a muddy wallow near Mount Adams in the...
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also be known as a belly mask, pregnancy belly cast, a pregnant plaster cast, or prenatal cast. Belly casts are most often made toward the end of the third...
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Paris and Marseille between 1889 and 1937. It was on display in the plaster cast museum of Louis Delaporte called musée Indo-chinois which existed in...
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Glossary of sculpting (section plaster cast)
worked on over a long period of time. A plaster cast is a copy of a sculpture, which is cast in plaster. A plaster cast can accurately reproduce the details...
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Robert Burns (section Number of plaster casts)
Retrieved 25 January 2024. "Cast of the Cranium of Robert Burns". heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2024. "Plaster cast of the skull of Robert Burns"...
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French name was La Perce-Neige (snow breaker) and it was first made in plaster cast for the 1881 Salon in Paris. Hasselberg's model was a 16-year-old Italian...
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place then "all the difficulties would disappear". After the inquest, a plaster cast was made of the man's head and shoulders. The lack of success in determining...
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Gipsoteca (Gallery of Plaster Casts) of the Istituto Statale d'Arte, has been used to make all subsequent casts of the David. The plaster cast of David at the...
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Plaster casting may refer to: Plaster cast Plaster mold casting, a metalworking process that uses plaster as the mold material This disambiguation page...
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has been destroyed and the cast is a unique record of a lost work. The practice of reproducing famous sculptures in plaster dates back to the sixteenth...
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Europe; in the 19th century it was distributed in plaster casts, photographs, and bronze copies. A plaster cast was sent to the Berlin Academy in 1822, only...
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University in Sweden consists of a display of more than 100 plaster casts of noses, including a cast of the metal prosthetic nose of Tycho Brahe. E.H. Huizing...
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the story, so taken by her beauty that he felt compelled to make a wax plaster cast death mask of her face. It has been questioned whether the expression...
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city of Kish in modern Tell al-Uhaymir, Babylon Governorate, Iraq. A plaster cast of the tablet is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, while the...
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1912, p. 118. Exum 2007, p. 135. Rutgers 1993. Laurie, Annie (2012). "Plaster Cast of the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus in the Vatican Museum". Abraham's...
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Dippy (section London cast)
most famous single dinosaur skeleton in the world, due to the numerous plaster casts donated by Andrew Carnegie to several major museums around the world...
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Venus Victrix (Canova) (section The plaster original)
Canova has the plaster cast of Venus Victrix, originally used as a model for the marble, in its gipsoteca [it], the museum's plaster cast gallery. During...
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over to professional plaster casters. The casters created a multi-part plaster mold, which was used in turn to cast a durable plaster version of the sculpture...
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preceded by a week by the single release of "Plaster Casts of Everything". The single release of Plaster Casts was accompanied by a videoclip. The song "Freak...
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enlisted under the Union Flag in MDCCCLXIII–MDCCCLXV. [1863-1865] A plaster cast, which was exhibited at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, is displayed...
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Victoria and Albert Museum (section Cast courts)
Room 46b; Cast Court—Plaster Cast of "Porta Magna" of San Petronio Basilica, Bologna by Jacopo della Quercia Room 46a; Cast Court—Plaster Cast of the 'Pórtico...
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Robert Burns' skull (section Number of plaster casts)
ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-25. "Cast of the skull of Robert Burns". www.umis.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-25. "Plaster cast of the skull of Robert Burns"....
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have put him in a plaster cast. We are checking him to find out if he can walk without the plaster cast. We break the initial cast, potentially to replace...
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