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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Museum of Antiquities of Leipzig University (category Plaster cast collections)
    emphasis of the collection was originally on antique coins, gems and plaster casts, this changed with the arrival of 50 Greek and Etruscan vases in Leipzig...
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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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    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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    involves pouring molten metal (typically non-toxic zinc or aluminum), plaster or cement down an ant colony mound acting as a mold and upon hardening...
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  • 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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  • Plaster cast of an early 2nd-century relief from the Tomb of the Haterii depicting mourning; the caps on the figures at lower right suggest they were slaves...
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    1985 Tinderbox. The jacket of the single remix of the song features the plaster cast of a chained dog killed in Pompeii. Pompeii is a 2003 Robert Harris novel...
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    top to bottom, permitting removal of the king's heart after death. A plaster cast was taken of the detached skull by artist William Scoular. The bones...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Hermes transforms Chelone into a tortoise, plaster cast of a Poniatowski gem....
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