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Are you looking for inspiration? For more information about a cast? The blog contains posts about casts and artists as well as posts about our history, philosophy, and news!
Would you eat a delicious meal in just 15 seconds?
It’s going to be a great night. You’ve made reservations and put on your best outfit. The hostess greets you. You pair your choice of...
"Cast Anew" - Design New England article on the Giust Gallery
If you want a little refresher about the Giust Gallery, we were featured in Design New England magazine back in 2011 in the May/June issue....
Those far off days
When the prolific American portrait painter George P. A. Healy talked about taking a journey to France in 1834 he said, as quoted in The Greater Journey: Americans...
We’re not just a store…
We’re also a collection. Caring for a collection of objects, whether public or private, is an important responsibility. In regards to this part of our work, the...
The Vatican, Accademia and the Louvre all in one place
When Pietro Caproni started the Caproni Collection in the 1890’s, his vision was to make great works of art available to the public, and we...
Caproni Casts for Sculpture Study, Part Three
Albert Toft Recommended Studying Casts along with Nature “This confidence is an all-important factor in the student’s progress, as he should not start by being...
Caproni Casts for Sculpture Study, Part Two
In The Sculptor’s Way, Putnam addresses a certain readership from the start: “The later and more advanced chapters will probably be most useful to a rather...
Caproni Casts for Sculpture Study, Part One
If you flip through the clay-stained pages of Lanteri’s Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure, you’ll understand why it’s held an important place on our...
The Stories and the People, Part 1: Caproni
Plaster reproductions of classical sculpture were once an integral educational tool in teaching people classical history in the United States. Casts were widely used in...