Cynthia Albritton a.k.a Cynthia Plaster Caster, who was famous for her plaster casts of rock stars's penises and other body parts, has died. She was 74. The artist and self-proclaimed "recovering ...

A German museum is seeking to de-stigmatize the female body with a workshops for making plaster casts of vulvas on International Women's Day. In contrast to male genitalia, the image of the vulva has ...

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 ...

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. In ...

As students hunt for tables, stare intently at their computer screens or wait in the endless, winding lines for a between-class snack, they often unwittingly ignore the plaster casts of the Venus de ...

An experimental exhibition in Denmark is intended to spark debate about the future use of 3D-printed replicas in museums. Plaster cast after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Head of David. Original made in ...

The victims of the Pompeii eruption wore heavy wool cloaks and tunics, suggesting different environmental conditions in summer. (University of Valencia) ...