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A new exhibit shows plaster casts of Pompeii victims frozen at the time of death

POMPEII, Italy — More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first time Thursday in a permanent exhibition. The casts, which ...
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Haunting Casts Preserving Pompeii Victims’ Final Moments 2,000 Years Ago Go on Display in a Solemn New Exhibition

One of the plaster casts on display in the new exhibition Marco Cantile / LightRocket via Getty Images The plaster casts of more than 20 victims of Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. are now on ...
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German museum invites women to make plaster casts of their vulvas

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plaster casts of male genitalia are widespread, but the same is not - yet - true for vulvas, say the curators of a German museum ...
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Destroy the copy - plaster cast collections in the 19th-20th centuries demolition, defacement, disposal in Europe and beyond edited by Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler ...

Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček -- I. (Post)colonial contexts -- Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis -- The (mis)performance of cast collections / Henrik Holm -- The ...