Ancient plaster : casting light on a forgotten sculptural material / edited by Abbey L.R. Ellis and Emma M. Payne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Abbey L. R., editor.

Payne, Emma M., editor.

Liverpool University Press, distributor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 274.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 274

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plaster sculpture--History.

Plaster sculpture.

Plaster casts.

Sculpture--Congresses.

Sculpture.

Sculpture, Ancient.

casts (sculpture).

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings.

History

Physical Description:

xviii, 377 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : The British Academy , 2025.

Contents:

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 'Ayn 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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1836245947

9781836245940

OCLC:

1523906842