European cast making and exchange of plaster copies have played an essential role in the worship of Classical art in European and North American aesthetics, higher education, and architecture.

His interest in life-cast started when while he was designing mannequins. He uses live models for his life-cast sculptures, making a mold by covering their bodies with a plaster-impregnated cloth.

Art World Plaster Casts of the Elgin Marbles Are Actually Better Preserved Than the Marbles Themselves, According to a New Study. 3D scanning helped show the ways in which early 19th-century ...

The Museum of Plaster Casts of Ancient Art has an eventful history: It was founded in 1869 as one of the first public collections in Bavaria and was located in Munich's Hofgarten Arcades.

Q: We recently purchased a 1926 colonial house with mostly horsehair plaster walls. This is my first experience with plaster walls, and I’m afraid they are going to crumble when I hang artwork ...

Beware the art museum selfie: another inconsiderate art lover has wreaked havoc in their quest for the perfect photo op. This time, the victim was a historic plaster model by the Italian artist ...