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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.
They are bronze casts with some silver-colored parts, which originate from the Anatolian region. [2] Similar processes can be found on some ancient Egyptian copper sheets. [3] Another example of early chemical coloring of metals is the Nebra sky disk, which has a green patina and gold inlays. An early example of black colored iron is the famous ...
The following year, she cast the 1937-38 plaster Single Form in bronze in 1963, in series of 7+1 (seven plus an artist's copy), at the Morris Singer foundry. To distinguish it from the original plaster sculpture, the new bronze series was named Single Form (Eikon) - the parenthetical eikon meaning "image" in Greek .
Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning is an 1853 sculpture by Harriet Hosmer.Plaster casts are in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, [1] and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. [2] As a bronze sculpture, versions are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [3] and in the "Cloister of the Clasped Hands" at Armstrong Browning ...
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.
Two more bronze casts (1925–1926 and 1927) are on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a 1931 bronze cast is housed at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. Another bronze of unknown casting date resides in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra owns two ...
Permian bronze casts – Permic and Western Siberian animal style cult cast figurines – were the predominant form of Finno-Ugric toreutics of the 3rd–12th centuries CE. It was spread throughout a large area of forests of the north-eastern Urals and western Siberia from the basins of the Kama and Vyatka to the Ob.
The original plaster version was bought by the founder Siot-Decauville and in 1893 produced in a single bronze cast the first version of The Waltz sometimes known as La valse avec voiles. Claudel worked on modified versions of The Waltz from 1895 to 1898, removing the drapery around the dancers' heads to make their faces visible.