Artnet

Plaster Casts of the Elgin Marbles Are Actually Better Preserved Than the Marbles Themselves, According to a New Study

Lord Elgin didn’t want to lose any more Parthenon marbles. The ancient temple atop the Athenian acropolis had already been through an ordeal: marred by a 3rd century AD fire, damaged when the temple ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

Prof Explores History Behind Plaster Casts in Karman Atrium

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 ...
Ars Technica

These Pompeii victims choked on ash while covering themselves with garments

In the 1870s, archaeologists made plaster casts of those who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, pouring the plaster into the voids left by decomposed bodies. The casts can still be viewed ...
Lawrence Journal-World

KU’s oldest museum, filled with casts of classical sculptures and artifacts, is a ‘hidden gem’

A plaster cast of the Venus de Milo statue at the Wilcox Classical Museum at the University of Kansas. The museum, founded in 1888, is not well-known by many at KU's campus, but curator Philip Stinson ...
The New York Times

In France, This Workshop Copies the World’s Great Sculptures

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 ...