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Illustration of stepwise bronze casting by the lost-wax method. Lost-wax casting – also called investment casting, precision casting, or cire perdue (French: [siʁ pɛʁdy]; borrowed from French) [1] – is the process by which a duplicate sculpture (often a metal, such as silver, gold, brass, or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture.
Dorothy Louise Eady (16 January 1904 – 21 April 1981), also known as Omm Sety or Om Seti (Arabic: أم سيتي), was a British antiques caretaker and folklorist.She was keeper of the Abydos Temple of Seti I and draughtswoman for the Department of Egyptian Antiquities.
The relief "Cairo Museum CG 1429" is largely preserved. Hesy-re is shown standing. In his left hand he holds a long rod, in his right a khereb sceptre. Hesy-re wears a shoulder-length wig and a short loincloth. The lower part of the image is largely lost. Above the image is a portion of his titulature, which is identical to panel CG 1427.
Cast iron development lagged in Europe because wrought iron was the desired product and the intermediate step of producing cast iron involved an expensive blast furnace and further refining of pig iron to cast iron, which then required a labor and capital intensive conversion to wrought iron.
English: Plate showing the Colossi of Memnon, twin statues of Amenhotep III standing at the entrance of his huge but now disappeared mortuary temple at Luxor, Egypt. The 72 pieces table service depicting scenes of Egypt, made at the Sèvres manufacture, was commissioned by Napoleon I of France as a present to Josephine when he divorced her to marry Marie Louise of Austria.
Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as well as bronze elements to be fitted to other objects such as furniture.
Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience , jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media.
Egypt ratified the convention on 7 February 1974, the second country to do so after the United States. [3] There are seven World Heritage Sites in Egypt, and a further 34 sites on the tentative list. [4] The first sites in Egypt were listed in 1979, when five properties were inscribed.