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Vocabulary

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The vocabulary below focuses on technical terms associated with bronze sculpture. For more terms, please refer to the relevant chapters in the guidelines using the 'search' function and to specialised text books and dictionaries (some references are given on this site).

Among the more than 300 terms listed here, 50 have been selected for further development including definition, synonyms, homographs and translations. To view these, you need to log in (below on the search bar). The selection of the 50 terms was determined by their ambiguity and/or frequent use by scholars studying bronze sculpture. Each of these 50 terms refers – for each language - to at least two or more authoritative  bibliographical sources (dictionary, textbook, scholarly publication, etc.). Historical sources are included when relevant, which may help to contextualize the term chronologically.

The vocabulary aims to be comprehensive for those terms selected, but these will be subject to further editing and updating. Please contact us (contact@cast-ing.org)