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Bronze

Refers to a broad range of alloys of copper, specifically any non-ferrous alloy of copper, tin, and zinc or other trace metals.

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Bronze Casting Using the “Lost Wax” Technique

Gandharan sculpture

Replicating Michelangelo

Works of Art

Seated Buddha

12th century

Isamu Noguchi, Gregory (Effigy)

originally designed in slate in 1945, cast in bronze in 1964

Teaching guide: The City Beautiful Movement

1922

1890–2021

Portraits of Alexander the Great

Roman copy c. 1–50 C.E.

Roman copy c. 20 B.C.E.–20 C.E.

Roman copy c. 2nd century C.E.

305–281 B.C.E.

Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Age Fourteen

wax model c. 1880; bronze cast 1922

Compound Microscope and Case
Getty Conversations

c. 1751

Praxiteles, Apollo Sauroktonos

c. 350–200 B.C.E.

c. 350 B.C.E.

Roman copy: c. 325–350 C.E., Greek original: c. 350 B.C.E.

Roman copy: c. 1st–2nd century C.E., Greek original: c. 350 B.C.E.

Mantiklos “Apollo”

c. 700–675 B.C.E.

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Medieval Materiality across the Mediterranean, 900–1500

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