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Cast links

  • The Beazley Archive - The University of Oxford
    The Beazley Archive contains a database of information on the 900 plaster casts of classical sculpture held in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The website also has information on how casts are made and provides access to a database of casts of engraved gems and cameos produced by James Tassie (1735-1799).

Related content

  • Teachers' resource: Sculpture
  • Sculpture techniques: bronze casting
  • Casts reading list
  • Plaster & plaster casts: materiality and practice - Conference report
  • Other theatre and performance collections links
  • Graphics and advertising: a study room resource links
  • Adult learning resources links
  • The history of the Cast Courts
  • Sand cast aluminium
  • Renovation of the Cast Courts
  • Auguste Rodin working methods
  • The V&A cast collection
  • Thinktank: the future designer, resources & links
  • David's fig leaf, perhaps by D. Brucciani & Co., about 1857
  • More

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