A lot of contemporary artists has look to greek and roman classical masterpieces with different approaches and media. Casts represented undoubtedly the most versatile support in this regard.
From Yves Klein to...
Lucas [top whale] and Scollick [third from left] preparing the cast of the blue whale's body, July 1903.
Image courtesy of the National Museum of Natural History
Man Ray (Emmanuel Rudzitsky 1890–1976) famous american surrealist-dada painter and photographer used to employ plaster casts in his art compositions by transforming their objective meaning. Never oversimplifying, but researching into the cast...
During the night of 26-27 August 1869 an unknown man stealthily climbed the large stairs of the Opèra Theatre of Garnier in Paris. Looked around, nobody came from...
The Florentine Gipsoteca at Porta Romana was one of the most famous and largest in Italy. The origin of this collection comes from plaster casts made during the Celebrations of Donatello...
Antique plaster casts preserve an important story. Like art objects are as beautiful as vulnerable. If an old cast came up to us retaining the marks and wounds of the...
One of the most fascinating places in Paris is the studio of Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) in Montparnasse.
The calm and extraordinary light suggest the real atmosphere during a moment of creation by...
This is really one of the most charming place of Italian Art. Requires a visit by all those who deeply love sculpture.
The rich collection of original plaster model and plaster casts...
The collection of plaster casts Gipsoteca Vallardi, with over six thousand models, was undoubtedly the richest among the Italian plaster-cast museums. The numerous casts ordered with careful and thorough correlation criterion...