Reviving the V&A’s Cast Courts

The V&A’s superlative Cast Courts are undergoing a timely programme of renovation, the first time in three decades. In these posts, the project team take you behind the scenes, keeping you updated on their progress and the discoveries and challenges in breathing new life into one of the V&A’s best-loved set of galleries.

Reviving the V&A’s Cast Courts

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

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

Cast Courts Update

3D Imaging in Cultural Heritage

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

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

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

Uniqueness and Multiplication: The Cast Courts team go to Brussels

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

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

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

How David’s nose left his face and multiplied

No Place to Hide: The Phone Box on Exhibition Road

Striking the Scaffolding in 46A: Zone 2

Inside Trajan’s Column

Casts In Focus: Rosslyn Chapel

Striking the Scaffolding in 46A

Guest Post: David at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Cast Courts Revival: Stage 2

Game of Clones: Electrotypes in Westeros