The residence of an architect, the house of a visionary, the home of a dreamer of beauty. Walking from the crowded sidewalks of High Holborn in the overactive city of London...
How Make the International Kline Blue to Paint a Plaster Cast.
Maybe few people know that IKB is the abbreviation for the International Kline Blue, the most famous blue used...
Gabriele D'Annunzio (Pescara, 1863 - Gardone Riviera 1938), the genius of poetry and eclecticism was a great collector of fine art objects and therefore also a collector of plaster casts. This...
One of the most important anatomical studies applied on the arts belongs to Jean-Galbert Salvage (Saint Flour 1772 - Lavastrie 1813) that published it on 1812. The title of the...
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...