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The Florentine Gipsoteca

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...

2014-04-05

Cast Collections

by Andrea Felice

10 Things Not to Do Restoring Old Plaster Casts

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...

2014-01-05

Cast Collections

by Andrea Felice

l’Atelier Musée d’Antoine Bourdelle

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...

2013-09-19

Museums

by Andrea Felice

La Gipsoteca Antonio Canova di Possagno

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...

2013-09-07

Cast Collections

by Andrea Felice

Gipsoteca Vallardi

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...

2013-06-26

Cast Collections

by Andrea Felice

Touching the Moon

Since I was a little boy dreamed looking the Moon, and I was fascinated so much by the Apollo 11 mission. I envied (and still do) those young...

2013-03-18

Museums

by Andrea Felice

The True Story of Smugglerius

On 12 April 1776, a man was hanged at Tyburn by order of the Court of Criminal known as the Old Bailey. The man was James Langar. His body was...

2012-12-08

Art Anatomy True Stories

by Andrea Felice

Tale of an hard work behind the scenes of Ben Hur

I believe that all of you knows the blockbuster film Ben Hur directed by William Wiler in 1959 and starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha...

2012-07-29

True Stories

by Andrea Felice

the Story of a Famous Ecorché

During his stay at the Académie de France in Rome from 1764 to 1768 Jean Antoine Houdon, modeled on San Bruno and SanGiovanni Battista in the church of Santa Maria...

2012-06-29

Art Anatomy

by Andrea Felice

The Florentine Gipsoteca

10 Things Not to Do Restoring Old Plaster Casts

l’Atelier Musée d’Antoine Bourdelle

La Gipsoteca Antonio Canova di Possagno

Gipsoteca Vallardi

Touching the Moon

The True Story of Smugglerius

Tale of an hard work behind the scenes of Ben Hur

the Story of a Famous Ecorché

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