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unusual facts about plaster



Abolhassan Sadighi

After numerous experiences in creating plaster sculptures, he made his first stone sculpture on a stucco model of Venus de Milo.

Amsterdam School

In German Brick Expressionism important expressionist buildings are excluded, such as the famous Einstein Tower in Potsdam by Erich Mendelsohn (white plaster) and the Philharmonie in Berlin by Hans Scharoun (yellow facade).

Anders Bundgaard

Many of Bundgaard's original plaster models can be seen in the Thingbæk Kalkminer Museum, a former mine near the Rebild National Park.

Apotheosis of St. Louis

It is a replica of a plaster model that stood at the entrance to the fair (where the Missouri History Museum now stands).

Bluey Wilkinson

Determined not to miss the final, Bluey had the Tottenham Hotspur club doctor put his arm and shoulder in plaster.

Charles Henri Joseph Cordier

His first success was a bust in plaster of a Sudanese man "Saïd Abdullah of the Mayac, Kingdom of the Darfur" (Sudan).

Charles-François Lebœuf

Portrait of Mathieu Molé, chancellor of France (1584 - 1656) (1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

CIKX-FM

On June 7, 2000, Telemedia Radio Atlantic Ltd. received CRTC approval to add a transmitter for CIKX-FM Grand Falls at Plaster Rock using the facilities of the CJCJ Woodstock rebroadcasting transmitter, CJCJ-2 Plaster Rock.

Detachment of wall paintings

There are three main methods, typically referred to by their Italian terms, namely stacco a massello, involving detachment and removal of painting, render, and some or all of the mural support; stacco or detachment of the painting with render alone; and strappo, lit. "tearing", lifting of only the paint layer, attached to a facing with adhesive.

District School No. 14

The exterior stucco finish and interior plaster also met a new state requirement that frame structures be enclosed in incombustible material, adopted in the wake of the 1908 Collinwood school fire near Cleveland, which killed 175, most of them students.

Dymaxion car

Isamu Noguchi was involved with the development of the Dymaxion car, creating plaster wind tunnel models that were a factor in determining its shape, and during 1934 drove it for an extended road trip through Connecticut with Clare Boothe Luce and Dorothy Hale.

Édouard Houssin

1884 - Monument Dupleix, project for the monument to Dupleix at Landrecies, plaster molding, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai

1867 (ca.) - Germanicus, high-relief plaster, signed inscription on the back: "1867 Medal" (Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai)

Eric Gill works at the Midland Hotel, Morecambe

These were two seahorses, modelled as Morecambe shrimps, for the outside entrance, a round plaster relief on the ceiling of the circular staircase inside the hotel, a decorative wall map of the north west of England, and a large stone relief of Odysseus being welcomed from the sea by Nausicaa.

Exminster

Inside, the Peamore chapel has a plaster ceiling dated 1633, depicting the Twelve Apostles and the Four Evangelists, scenes of the Nativity, Christ carrying the cross and the Resurrection.

Eye, Herefordshire

Eye has a historic small church with a square tower and some wonderful effigies; beside it is Eye Manor, noted for its fine decorated plaster ceilings.

Gaetano Tumiati

He was author of several novels and essays: his novel Il busto di gesso (The plaster bust) won the 1976 Premio Campiello.

George Grard

George Grard (1901-1984) was a Belgian sculptor, known above all for his representations of the female, in the manner of Pierre Renoir and Aristide Maillol, modelled in clay or plaster, and cast in bronze.

Georges Diebolt

He came to be valued for works in an academic style which prefigured his 1841 plaster bas-relief La mort de Démosthène (now at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts), or La Villanelle, exhibited at the Salon of 1848 and remarked upon by Théophile Gautier, who described it as

Gleb W. Derujinsky

His original sculptures in plaster done from life include Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Lillian Gish, Lady Diana Cooper, Rabindranath Tagore, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, José R. Capablanca and many others.

Great Mosque of Sana'a

Also discovered while removing the plaster were twelve ancient copies of the Koran (parchments in Kufic script), as well as four thousand rare Arabic manuscripts linked to the start of Islam, the Umayyad period, and Sheba's Palace of Ghamdan and its destruction.

Hafodunos

The most notable features are a series of plaster bas-reliefs designed by John Gibson and Thorwaldsen, an international sculptor from Conway who trained in Rome.

Hamo Thornycroft

These included Lot's Wife (1878), Artemis and her Hound (1880 plaster, 1882 marble), the Homeric bowman Teucer (1881 plaster, 1882 bronze), and the Mower (1884 plaster, 1894 bronze), arguably the first life-size freestanding statue of a contemporary laborer in 19th-century sculpture.

Jessie Lipscomb

In 1887 she exhibited another terra-cotta piece entitled Sans Souci, and a plaster portrait of Camille Claudel.

John Evan Thomas

In Brecknock Museum a metal electrotype of his 1848 plaster sculpture, Death of Tewdrig, depicts the dying fifth-century king Tewdrig and saint of Glamorgan.

John Plaster

Plaster's experiences serve as the basis for the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Joseph Bonomi the Younger

The expedition then moved on to Kalabsha, where Bonomi laboured to produce several plaster casts of the reliefs, to Philae and then to Thebes.

Kingscote, Gloucestershire

The house seems to have been of high status, with mosaic floors, including a Venus mosaic now displayed in the nearby Corinium Museum, hypocausts and wall-plaster paintings.

Matthew Gibney

During restoration work in the Cathedral between 2003 and 2006, the brick and plaster crypt containing the coffins of Gibney and Bishop Martin Griver was discovered by archaeologists under the floorboards of the Cathedral.

Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

The most impressive parts of this exhibit are a hunting scene on plaster from the 7th millennium BC, a reproduction of a Çatalhöyük room with wall-mounted bull heads, a Mother Goddess Kybele (later Cybele) sculpture, obsidian tools, wall paintings of Mount Hasan erupting, and wall paintings of a leopard.

Nasothek

"Nasoteket" at Lund University in Sweden consists of a display of more than 100 plaster casts of noses, including a cast of the silver nose of Tycho Brahe.

Phereoeca uterella

It is commonly known as the plaster bagworm but as the term "bagworm" more properly refers to moths of a different family (Psychidae), it is often called the household casebearer – which may in turn refer to the related Phereoeca allutella.

Plaster casting

Plaster mold casting, a metalworking process that uses plaster as the mold material

Plaster City, California

Plaster City was briefly, in 1993, the locale of the fully restored Eureka Locomotive, one of the last narrow gauge steam locomotives from the height of railroad development in the West.

In the 1963 film, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Ethel Merman's character is heard talking on a phone to her son, saying that she was "in some place called Plaster City."

Plate smashing

February 8, 2011, Packed to the Rafters, episode 4.1, in which the character Nick 'Carbo' Karandonis and his fiancée have an engagement party which includes smashing plaster plates and the mistaken smashing of porcelain plates.

Quincha

Quincha is a traditional construction system that uses, fundamentally, wood and cane or giant reed forming an earthquake-proof framework that is covered in mud and plaster.

Richard Cowling Taylor

Subsequently he was occupied in reporting on mining properties, including that of the British Iron Company in South Wales, his plaster model of which received the Isis medal of the Society of Arts.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth

During restoration work in the Cathedral between 2003 and 2006, the brick and plaster crypt containing the coffins of Bishops Matthew Gibney and Martin Griver was discovered by archaeologists under the floorboards of an aisle in the Cathedral.

San Francesco di Paola ai Monti

The lower part of the façade was refinished in plaster in the 18th century, and the whole church was then restored about a century later by Pope Leo XII.

Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore

It is believed that most of this work, especially the elaborate plaster sculptures and ornamentation, were produced by skilled craftsmen from the Nagapattinam and Cuddalore districts of South India.

St Paul's Church, Bristol

It still boasts an ornate Georgian plaster ceiling, stone columns and a wealth of decorative stained glass, but has now been equipped with aerial and trapeze equipment and a pale Maple wood sprung dance floor.

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a seemingly trivial problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon.

The Lacuna

During his time in Mexico he works as a plaster mixer for the mural artist Diego Rivera then as a cook for both him and his artist wife Frida Kahlo, with whom Shepherd develops a lifelong friendship.

Théophile Bra

His marble and plaster sculptures are numerous, in Douai's Musée de la Chartreuse, Paris churches and the museums at Versailles, Lille and Valenciennes, many of them being commissions under the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy.

William Trethewey

Subsequent works were a bust of Christchurch Hospital benefactor Hyam Marks, a bust of Christchurch Mayor Charles Gray (1853–1918) commissioned by Christchurch City Council, a shearer for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924–1925, and plaster work at the Civic Theatre, next to the then civic offices in Manchester Street.


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