How to make a work in terracotta or bronze in ancient Greece and Egypt and what are the meeting points between the two techniques? Read More
In the context of the very current reflection on craftsmanship, the relationship between manufacturers of terracotta figurines (coroplasts) and bronzesmiths, often considered, is rarely demonstrated: they necessarily came together at certain stages of the development of their works when they made prototypes, impressions, moulds and intermediate models. There remain a few impressions, moulds and casts in fired clay or plaster, or even some terracotta prototypes. But what do we know of wax and unfired clay? How can we approach today the question of sculpture techniques that practiced modelling and used mould in Greek and Egyptian antiquity? If the notion of plattein (to shape) is thus at the heart of this book in order to reread the literary, iconographic and material testimonies on ancient plastic, the importance of moulding, i. e. the reproduction of an object through a mould, including bronze, is also reconsidered.
Introduction
Sophie Descamps-Lequime, Violaine Jeammet
De l'argile au bronze : au commencement était le plastes
Sophie Descamps-Lequime, Violaine Jeammet
Positifs et négatifs, moules et matériaux dans l'Égypte pharaonique
Marc Étienne
La réduplication des statuettes d’Osiris en bronze du temple d’Ayn Manawîr (oasis de Kharga, Égypte) : techniques et croyances
Florence Gombert-Meurice
Modelage de l’argile (Pline l’Ancien, Histoire Naturelle, XXXV, 152) et fabrication des grands bronzes (Posidippe, 63 A-B)
François Queyrel
Bronze et terre cuite : le regard du peintre
Annie Verbanck-Piérard
Observations sur la plastique argienne archaïque
Hélène Aurigny, Francis Croissant (†)
La statuaire en terre cuite : entre bronze et marbre ?
Aliki Moustaka
Bols tournés dans un moule : outils, artisans et pratiques d’ateliers
Natacha Massar
Cire, terre et plâtre. Regards croisés sur les situles de bronze
Sophie Descamps-Lequime, Louise Détrez, Fabien Perronnet
Donner la parole aux matériaux. Méthodologie empirique et morale pour bien travailler en atelier
Patrice Alexandre
Glossaire
Index
Lieux de conservation
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