#lost-wax

[almostarts]

"Orbu" Designed by Oscar Thomson for Lood,

Hand semi-polished stainless steel,

2025 VIVID Emerging Design Award Object Finalist

[archaicwonder]

Lifesize Greek Bronze Sandaled Foot, C. 323-31 BC

From Greece. This is a life-sized foot from a statue, complete with the lead weights inside its hollow feet, used for stabilization of the statue atop a plinth. 

Since it is a fragment, this piece also offers us a fantastic look at the art of creating these immense bronze statues. It was made using the indirect method of lost-wax casting. First, the artist created a master mold from either clay, wax, wood, or, occasionally, stone. Molds were taken in several pieces from this master and dried, then reassembled into groups in a manageable size. These were lined with a layer of beeswax. This foot is built around an iron armature; this was placed into the mold and clay was then poured around it. The clay would build up in two or three fine-to-coarser layers. Eventually the mold would be broken away from the bronze and discarded, with the master mold remaining for use if something went wrong with the bronze casting. The addition of the lead weights represented a revolution in design when it was introduced during the Classical Period: they enabled the creation of new, less rigid poses because the statue no longer would fall over unless posed in a way that unbalanced it.

In the Hellenistic Period, bronze sculpture moved away from austere religious depictions into more realistic, human pieces. Although today all these bronze statues have their dark green, almost black patina, when they were made they would have had a tone roughly similar to that of Mediterranean skin; they were also decorated with inlays, and this foot probably once had inlaid toenails.

[scandinaviancollectors]

GENE SUMMERS, Studio furniture by Summers including cast bronze candlesticks and a side table, as well as patinated bronze lounge chair. Limited edition cast in lost-wax technique after Summers original models, designed mid-1980s, France / USA. / Wright

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Hadrian / Bronze Casting Using The Lost-Wax Technique

A short animation made for the "Hadrian" Exhibition in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, December 2015. The film shows the bronze casting process in an…

Beautiful step by step video of the lost-wax technique process

[soilofindia]

SoilOfIndia The lost-wax work or Dhokra and its creative expressions have mesmerized people down centuries. What you see here, you won't find  elsewhere in the world. All natural, biodegradable and eco friendly...for the love of our planet.   http://goo.gl/dh8GNT                

[capharnaumworld]

Hadrian / Bronze Casting Using The Lost-Wax Technique by Renana Aldor & Kobi Vogman (4:20)

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[findstoday]

Hadrian / Bronze Casting Using The Lost-Wax Technique

A short animation made for the "Hadrian" Exhibition in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, December 2015.

The film shows the bronze casting process in an artistic yet simple method, a combination of stop motion and 2D animation. The preparation process included a research and a constant dialogue with the curator and the restoration department of the museum as well as a visit in a bronze casting workshop. The head used in the film was a plaster replica of the original Hadrian's bronze statue found in Tel-Shalem, Israel, 117-138 CE.

Client: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Directors: Renana Aldor, Kobi Vogman Art and Design: Renana Aldor, Kobi Vogman Stop Motion Animation: Renana Aldor, Kobi Vogman 2D Animation: Renana Aldor Compositing: Kobi Vogman Sound Design: Mikael Berkowitsch Typography: Alex Belenkiy