Daily Mail

Cambridge University will put notes on ‘misleadingly’ white Roman and Greek plaster-cast sculptures – explaining it doesn’t mean the ancient world had an ‘absence of ...

Signs will be added to explain the ‘whiteness’ of sculpture plaster casts inside Cambridge University’s archaeology museum as part of a new anti-racist strategy. Plaster casts of Roman and Greek ...
Slate

Imprisoned in Ash: The Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

Some of the plaster-encased bodies of victims who were buried by the ashes as they attempted to flee Pompeii during the 79 AD eruption of the Vesuvius volcano. Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFP/Getty Images ...
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 ...