Word: plasters
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...graven images are among the finest of this century, and Showman Rose was not exaggerating last week when he made his own estimate of their value. "When you think that one bronze reproduction might bring in $15,000, and that here we'll have 300 of the original plaster models, well. I'd hate to think what the value would be in figures, but it's astronomical...
...messenger boy for a process server's office and then a clerk for a bookstore-jobs that opened up to him every corner of Paris. He sketched everything he saw, finally started studying art with an academician whose idea of instruction was to have his pupils copy plaster casts hour after hour. "This is not life," said Daumier, and he struck...
After the rooms were cleared and the plaster carefully cleaned, the ancient frescoes stood out almost as fresh as when they were first painted. In one room the walls are painted to represent yellow columns linked with festoons of green pine branches sacred to the goddess Cybele, whose temple stood near...
...fragment of painted plaster gave Professor Carettoni reason to hope that something interesting might be inside the rooms; with infinite patience he removed the earth and rubble from three sides...
...workers dug deeper, they began the first thorough housecleaning that the rooms had had in nearly 20 centuries. Bucket after bucket of earth was lifted out of the first room, and Carettoni spotted faint patterns on the inner plaster walls-well-preserved frescoes of the long-gone Augustan period...