Casting

The act or process of making casts or of shaping in a mold; usually refers to pouring liquid material into a mold.

Basics Works of Art

Casting

The act or process of making casts or of shaping in a mold; usually refers to pouring liquid material into a mold.

Basics Works of Art

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Gandharan sculpture

Bronze casting using the “lost wax” technique

Lost-wax metal casting

Ancient Colombian goldmaking

Wearable art in Byzantium

Replicating Michelangelo

The making and worship of Ganesha statues in Maharashtra

Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa

Works of Art

Donatello, David

date unknown but likely late 1430s–1440s

Merovingian Looped Fibulae

6th century

Nicholas of Verdun, Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne Cathedral

c. 1181–1220

Bust of an African Child

2nd–3rd century C.E.

Andrea Pisano, South doors, Baptistery of Saint John, Florence

1330–36

Meta Warrick Fuller, Emancipation

1913 (cast 1999)

Seated Buddha

12th century

Isamu Noguchi, Gregory (Effigy)

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

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