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Sculpture

The V&A’s sculpture collection contains approximately 22,000 objects and concentrates on Western European Sculpture from the 4th century to the end of the 19th century. Highlights of the collection include masterpieces from the Italian Renaissance, ivory carvings of all periods, Northern European wood and other sculpture, commemorative medals and plaster casts. Learn about the hidden stories behind these masterpieces.

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Adventures in 3D Scanning: A Cast Court For The Digital Age Part 2

This is the second of two blog posts which discuss the 3D scanning of 25 objects in the museum’s collection as part of the wider exploration of reproductions in the digital age...
Alastair Hamer
Conservation

A window into Mughal craftsmanship: conservation of a C16th white marble jali

null Carmen Vida
Museum life

A sculpture merging Jamaican culture with utility

A wooden cylindrical lamp stand, with a face and body, lizard, and snake carved into it
null Sandy Jones
Digital

Photographing the Ascension

null Tom Windross
Asia

Investigating an ancient Buddhist sculpture – the Longmen Grottoes

null Amanda Imai
Caring for our collections

A closer look at Grinling Gibbons’ wood panel of the Stoning of St Stephen

null Kira d'Alburquerque
Our projects

Terracotta in South Kensington: the Origins of a Revival

null Simona Valeriani
Caring for our collections

Plaster casts and the value of knowledge

null Dr. Valentina Risdonne
Caring for our collections

Adventures in 3D scanning: New models launched on Sketchfab

null Becky Knott
Caring for our collections

Adventures in 3D Scanning: A Cast Court for the Digital Age

null Becky Knott
Caring for our collections

Cast Courts Update – Four Months To Go!

null Becky Knott
Caring for our collections

Playing with Plaster

null Becky Knott
Caring for our collections

Guest Post: The restoration of Michelangelo’s David and the interventions by Clemente Papi

null Franca Falletti
Caring for our collections

Guest Post: ‘Castaway!’ – David washed ashore in the antipodes

null Lorraine Kypiotis
Conservation

Time capsules, finding the unexpected in buildings and objects – Part 3

null Johanna Puisto
Conservation

Guest Post: Part 2 – David’s journey from Florence to V&A

null Giuseppe Rizzo
Caring for our collections

Guest Post: Part 1 – Clemente Papi: From plaster maker to Royal Bronze Founder

The Chapel, Petits St. Augustins, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris (Photo: @ EDBA n. 40445).
null Giuseppe Rizzo
Caring for our collections

Cast Courts Update

null Becky Knott
Caring for our collections

3D Imaging in Cultural Heritage

null Becky Knott
Caring for our collections

Guest Post: Part 2 – The Florentine copies of Michelangelo’s David by Clemente Papi – The plaster cast of the Head of David at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence

Figure 4. Clemente Papi, Plaster cast of the head of David by Michelangelo, 1848. Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence. Photo credit: Gabinetto Fotografico degli Uffizi, 2012.
null Giuliana Videtta
Caring for our collections

Guest Post: Part 1 – The Florentine Copies of Michelangelo’s David by Clemente Papi – The Plaster Cast at Istituto Statale d’Arte

Michelangelo’s David in the Tribuna of the Academy of Fine Arts, post 1903 – ante 1909. Note the plaster cast of the Head displayed on the right-hand side (Alinari Archives, published in L’Accademia, Michelangelo, l’Ottocento, cit., p.46, detail).
null Giuliana Videtta
Caring for our collections

Guest Post: The David in the Hall – Creating Casts of Michelangelo’s David

Image of the Giust Gallery’s head of David. Image, courtesy of the Giust Gallery.
null Kayla Malouin
Caring for our collections

Uniqueness and Multiplication: The Cast Courts team go to Brussels

null Becky Knott
David Nose Plaster Cast by FeliceCalchi - plaster casts & sculptures, Rome over an old Cast Catalogue by Domenico Brucciani, London. Image, Andrea Felice 2017.
Caring for our collections

Guest Post: The Cast of David’s Nose – A Mould Maker’s Impression

null Andrea Felice
The first attempt slightly further along. Image, Kurt van der Basch.
Caring for our collections

Guest Post: Echoes of Michelangelo – Personal Observations on Drawing David’s Nose

null Kurt van der Basch
Caring for our collections

Follow your nose – Brucciani’s plaster casts of the face of Michelangelo’s David as object lessons for art education

Brucciani 1906 Catalogue Detail
null Rebecca Wade
Plaster cast of David's noseby Brucciani & Co. London. Image, George Eksts © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Caring for our collections

How David’s nose left his face and multiplied

null Johanna Puisto
Caring for our collections

Striking the Scaffolding in 46A: Zone 2

null Becky Knott
Caring for our collections

Inside Trajan’s Column

null Becky Knott
Caring for our collections

Casts In Focus: Rosslyn Chapel

null Becky Knott
Caring for our collections

Striking the Scaffolding in 46A

null Becky Knott

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