6 juillet 2020
Eckart Marchand, « A modern antiquity », Bilderfahrzeuge, ID : 10670/1.2ru7vh
Catalogue: Une Antiquité moderne, exh. cat. L’Academie de France à Rome. Villa Medici, Rome 2019. ISBN: 978-88-3367-077-5 Plaster casts are image vehicles par excellence. They can reproduce and multiply three-dimensional form, and serve the dissemination of visual ideas from one place to another; they can record lost stages of a work’s appearance, e.g. pre-completion, pre-damage, pre-destruction or pre-restauration. Often perceived as perfect one to one copies of the external form of a thre...