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scanned page of P.P. Caproni and Brother catalog with black and white photos of plaster casts of various small animal sculptures

Caproni Casts for Sculpture Study, Part Two

By Lisa Benson

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...

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scanned tan book cover of Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure by Edouard Lanteri with sculpture detail of two bronze hands

Caproni Casts for Sculpture Study, Part One

By Lisa Benson

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...

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black and white photo of Caproni building facade with large storefront and with gargoyles on roof front corners on Washington Street in Boston

The Stories and the People, Part 1: Caproni

By Kayla Fletcher

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...

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