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- Title
Nature and Art, Making and Knowing: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Life-Casting Techniques.
- Authors
SMITH, PAMELA H.; BEENTJES, TONNY
- Abstract
The article presents an examination into the late 16th-century practice of producing live-casting sculpture from small animals and plants. Introductory details are given highlighting the popularity of live-cast items during the period. Extensive discussion is offered regarding the techniques of the process as taken from a French scientific technical manuscript. The treatise's instructions are reproduced and commentary is given regarding the role of such practices in the intellectual culture of the era. The author concludes that the popularity of the technique was rooted in the interests of natural science rather than more direct artistic concerns.
- Subjects
FRANCE; RENAISSANCE sculpture; NATURAL history -- Pre-Linnean works; MODELING (Sculpture); FRENCH manuscripts; RENAISSANCE; SIXTEENTH century; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2010, Vol 63, Issue 1, p128
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/652535