Cynthia Albritton a.k.a Cynthia Plaster Caster, who was famous for her plaster casts of rock stars's penises and other body parts, has died. She was 74. The artist and self-proclaimed "recovering ...

A German museum is seeking to de-stigmatize the female body with a workshops for making plaster casts of vulvas on International Women's Day. In contrast to male genitalia, the image of the vulva has ...

The Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn has molds of more than 6,000 artworks such as the “Venus de Milo” and Alexander the Great’s foot. An artisan at work in the Plaster Cast Workshop of the ...

European cast making and exchange of plaster copies have played an essential role in the worship of Classical art in European and North American aesthetics, higher education, and architecture. In ...

New research finds that at least four individuals who died in the eruption were wearing woolen tunics and cloaks, which ...

As students hunt for tables, stare intently at their computer screens or wait in the endless, winding lines for a between-class snack, they often unwittingly ignore the plaster casts of the Venus de ...

There was a splendid Christmas surprise for gorilla Vizazi and her carers at Antwerp Zoo: after almost a month, a plaster cast has been removed from her right leg. The cast was put on to protect a ...

Fixation using metal Kirschner wires (K-wires) offers no advantage over traditional moulded plaster casts in improving wrist function and pain in patients with distal radius fractures. These findings ...

The victims of the Pompeii eruption wore heavy wool cloaks and tunics, suggesting different environmental conditions in summer. (University of Valencia) ...