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The cast was then dipped 20 or more times into a ceramic slurry to form the molds into which 6,000 pounds (2.7 t) of bronze, melted in a crucible, were poured, 400 pounds (180 kg) at a time. These bronze blocks were sand blasted, fitted, and welded together to form the final sculpture.
[116] [117] Stonewall Jackson's bust was dedicated one year later in May 1957, [118] followed that December by the busts of Westinghouse and Gibbs. [119] [120] NYU wished to unveil Wilbur Wright's bust alongside that of his brother Orville Wright, who had died in 1948 and was thus ineligible for nomination until the 1970s. NYU's senate waived ...
A bronze sculpture placed on a limestone tablet (104 x 48 x 10 in.), Socrates is a portrait mask of the Greek Athenian philosopher Socrates. He is depicted as being bald and with a beard. To the lower left of the beard is engraved: W.V. CASEY and below the bronze bust on the tablet is inscribed: SOCRATES UNTIL PHILOSOPHERS ARE KINGS, OR THE
A plaque and a palm tree weren't enough to mark the swagger and star power of Burt Reynolds. That's why a bronze bust were unveiled on Monday, three years after the actor's death. (Sept. 22)
Bust of Nefertiti; c. 1345 BC; limestone and plaster; height: 48 cm, width: 20 cm; Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human body, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. The bust is ...
The bust of Piotr Wysocki, [a] also known as the Piotr Wysocki Monument, [b] is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, located in the Royal Baths Park, within the Downtown district. The sculpture consists of a bronze bust depicting Piotr Wysocki, a 19th-century military officer, a colonel in the Army of Congress Poland, and one of the organisers and commanders of the November Uprising.
The sculpture features a life-size bust of Johnson made of bronze with holes to insert flowers. [2] It is a work of guerrilla art but was later approved by New York Park Services, making it the first sculpture of a transgender person in New York City.
Here, in the building's salon in 1760-63 he made his first known works of art, the bronze busts of the imperial couple and reliefs representing the heir of the crown and his wife. With these works he joined the Late Baroque art of courtly representation, which was under the determining influence of Balthasar Ferdinand Moll .