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

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.

c. 325 B.C.E.

305–281 B.C.E.

Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Age Fourteen

wax model c. 1880; bronze cast 1922

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.

Piraeus Athena

c. 350 B.C.E.

Elizabeth Catlett, Invisible Man

2003

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Spoken Softly with Mama

1998

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