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Saturday, 26 April 2014
Friday, 12 July 2013
Saturday, 23 June 2012
casts / photographs / fearful fidelity / dreadful agony
an attempt had been made to cast the body of a woman discovered in the House of the Faun in 1830. The woman's foot seems to have been greatly admired... ma la forma del suo piede e del suo calzare attiro la nostra attenzione / Fiorelli /Dwyer/ Sculpture &Archaeology/ 57
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L'Inconnue de la Seine c.1880s
Eugene Dwyer
Matthew Brady / Battle of Gettysburg 1863
Giuseppe Fiorelli / Casts from Pompei / 1863
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Cartonnage
Cartonnage is the term used in Egyptology and Papyrology for plastered layers of fibre or papyrus, flexible enough for moulding while wet against the irregular surfaces of the body; the method was used in funerary workshops to produce cases, masks or panels to cover all or part of the mummified and wrapped body. The plastered surface gave an even ground for painting motifs with greater stability than was possible with a linen shroud.
Sometimes cartonnage is compared with papier mache, but there is no pulping of the substrate, whether papyrus or linen: instead, smaller or larger sections of linen are cut to shape, and layered, and the plaster applied over the top. The method of preparation preserves the sections, and for this reason papyrus cartonnage is a prominent source of well-preserved manuscript sections.
Monday, 10 January 2011
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