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The Villager Art Gallery and Custom Framing located at 429 E Grand Ave. will host an exhibit of Body Casting art by Anne Elisabeth Hogh with an opening reception from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Friday. The ...
They came a long way — but probably didn’t make the opening. Hundreds of white plaster casts of vaginas, believed to have been en route to an art gallery, tumbled onto a road in Irkutsk, Russia, last ...
Pompeii’s plaster cast human figures aren't who they were assumed to be, genetic tests have revealed, highlighting the way idealised stories can be projected onto archaeological evidence. The analysis ...
In the spring of 1995 I was studying for my A-levels in Cambridge, along with my best friend, Kate. For her final art exam, Kate wanted to create a male torso in the style of a classical sculpture, ...
When a volcanic eruption buried the Roman city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago, a thick layer of volcanic ash encased the bodies, preserving their forms. The bodies, later immortalized by plaster ...
NATURE BRIEFING 08 November 2024 Daily briefing: First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were Remains recovered from plaster casts of five people who died in the eruption of Mount ...
The Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn has molds of more than 6,000 artworks such as the “Venus de Milo” and Alexander the Great’s foot. An artisan at work in the Plaster Cast Workshop of the ...