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Curator’s Notes: Architectural Plaster Casts

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Curator’s Notes: Architectural Plaster Casts
Visitors explore the Dorfman Architecture Court at the Royal Academy in London, where the architectural plaster casts are hung as they would’ve been in the 19th century. Royal Academy of Arts, London
Lorraine Ferrier
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Helen Valentine, a senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, shares how and why the Academy has approximately 500 architectural plaster casts: from small medieval heads coming from England’s cathedrals to huge plaster casts coming from the great architectural monuments of ancient Rome.

The primary purpose of having these architectural casts was for the architectural students who went to the Royal Academy Schools from 1769 through to the 1950s.

Lorraine Ferrier
Lorraine Ferrier
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Lorraine Ferrier writes about fine arts and craftsmanship for The Epoch Times. She focuses on artists and artisans, primarily in North America and Europe, who imbue their works with beauty and traditional values. She's especially interested in giving a voice to the rare and lesser-known arts and crafts, in the hope that we can preserve our traditional art heritage. She lives and writes in a London suburb, in England.
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