Ancient plaster : casting light on a forgotten sculptural material /
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
The British Academy,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy ;
274. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Modelling and moulding in plaster. Freehand modelling with lime plaster / Clare Venables ; Lime kilns and plaster production / Beth Munro ; Thoughts on the disposition of the 1983 cache of plaster figures from ʻAyn Ghazal, Jordan / Kathryn Walker Tubb ; The material behind the masterpiece : plaster and the production of Greek and Roman chryselephantine statues / Kenneth Lapatin ; Sculpting with plaster at Dura-Europos / Emma M. Payne ; Discussing middle Byzantine stucco production : the case of Hosios Loukas / Flavia Vanni
- Part II. Plaster in the sculptor's workshop. Plaster piece moulding / Thomas Schelper ; In the workshop of an ancient Egyptian sculptor : the estate of the chief royal sculptor Thutmose at Akhet Aten - Amarna / Dimitri Laboury ; Plaster casts and the transmission of iconography : a Central Asian perspective / Rachel Mairs and Lauren Morris ; Italy, France and the origin of the full-scale plaster cast model / Eckart Marchand ; Did Roman marble sculptors work from plaster models? : the Baiae plaster casts in context / Amanda Claridge, edited by Janet Delaine ; The function of ancient plaster casts from metalworks : a reconsideration / Abbey L.R. Ellis ; Plaster models for stone sculpture / Thomas Merrett and Emma M. Payne
- Part III. Life casting in the Classical world. Life casting in antiquity : a sculptor's perspective / Nigel Konstam ; Plaster life casting and the production of bronze statuary in ancient Greece : the early Classical revolution / W. Alexander Lumsden and Carol C. Mattusch ; Roman non-elite plaster death mask moulds revisited : practicality, purpose and memory preservation / Kelsey Shawn Madden
- Part IV. Ancient subjects, modern eyes. Modern life casting / Martin Hanson ; Flexible casting techniques through history / Mariam Sonntag ; Casting from life : a delicate matter / Veronika Tocha ; We contemporise, they persist / Chris Dorsett.