Volume 4 : videos

 

The following videos illustrate different casting processes, different steps, different workshops.

Direct lost wax casting

Adrian de Vries’s Bronze Casting Technique

Direct lost wax casting (a Getty film, 8’ 38’’)

 

Lions, Dragons and Other Beasts

replication casting using the lost wax direct casting process of one of the aquamanilia in the "Lions, Dragons and other Beasts" at the 2006 MET exhibition from the Metropolitan's collection, by Ubaldo Vitali using only those materials available to the medieval metalworker (39' video)

 

Indirect lost wax casting -wax impression

Indirect lost wax casting and fusion welding: the example of the Roman Captif from Arles, France

fabrication process of a 1st century BC bronze statue representing a Captive Gallic from the Musée Départemental d’Arles Antique (MDAA). The multimedia was shown at the 2012 Louvre exhibition "Arles, les fouilles du Rhône, un fleuve pour mémoire" (by C2RMF, 8'09"")

 

 

Indirect lost wax casting -slush molding

Slush molding replication

replication of Indirect lost wax casting by slush molding featuring Francesca Bewer (a Getty film, 6’10’’)

 

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 (slush molding) in an artistic yet simple method, a combination of stop motion and 2D animation (a film by Renana Aldor & Kobi Vogman, 4'19'').

 

 

A Michelangelo Discovery: The Rothschild bronzes and the case for their proposed attribution

This video (5 mins) briefly describes the experimental reconstruction and analysis carried out by Andrew Lacey on the Rothschild bronzes. The findings were presented at A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium at Downing College Cambridge on July 6th 2015.

 

Bell casting

Modern bell casting in Austria

 

 

 

 

 

 

Traditional bell casting in South Korea