Bronze casts made in 1990 from plaster death mask and plaster cards of his hands clearly show a normal right hand and a withered left hand.

In early 2008, she revealed that she was ' close to death ' after suffering a debilitating stroke due to a piece of 17th century plaster that fell on her head ( damaging her vertebral artery ) in 2006.

In ancient Egypt, coffins and death masks were often made from cartonnage-layers of papyrus or linen covered with plaster.

Soon after his death an auction sale of the contents of his studio was held, 12 – 15 May 1762, from which Dr Matthew Maty purchased a number of his plaster and terracotta models, which he presented to the newly-founded British Museum.

Until her death she lived for years in Mespil House, a Georgian mansion with beautiful plaster ceilings on Mespil Road, on the banks of the Grand Canal.

A death mask is a wax or plaster cast made of a person ’ s face following death.

It is sometimes possible to identify portraits that have been painted from death masks, because of the characteristic slight distortions of the features caused by the weight of the plaster during the making of the mold.

In the late Middle Ages, a shift took place from sculpted masks to true death masks, made of wax or plaster.

Washington sat for wet clay life models and a plaster life mask in 1785.

* A " life mask " is a plaster cast of a face, used as a model for making a painting or sculpture.

Dr Brain experimented with the Goldman Dental nasal mask cuff, if the flanges were drawn together in the midline, they produced a remarkable approximation to the plaster casts.

His face was made into a plaster mask.

At one point, Earle leaves a plaster mask of Caroline on Cooper ’ s bed, with a tape recorder underneath.

The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

Green lumber was all very well back in the days of wet plaster, when the framing lumber was bound to swell and then shrink as tons of water dried out the gypsum.

Some of the lime that is always on hand in the Capitol basement for plaster repairs was slaked several months for us ; ;

The plaster was sound, the intonaco firmly attached all over, and the pigment solidly incorporated with it in all but a few unimportant places.

This softened the skin so that in the morning when the bandage was removed the corn could be scraped off and a bit of corn plaster put on.

Bill Weigand was good and tired of the wall opposite, and the crack in the plaster.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

Carnegie was so proud of " Dippi " that he had casts made of the bones and plaster replicas of the whole skeleton donated to several museums in Europe and South America.

The soft sandstone of the walls was originally protected by plaster internally and render externally.

After not being taken seriously about what he was seeing, Crew brought in his friend, Bob Titmus, to cast the prints in plaster.

During the Renaissance and the Baroque, visible brick walls were unpopular and the brickwork was often covered with plaster.

Such cartoons often have pinpricks along the outlines of the design ; a bag of soot was then patted or " pounced " over the cartoon, held against the wall to leave black dots on the plaster (" pouncing ").

He was seen by Reitell's doctor, Milton Feltenstein, who put his arm in plaster and treated him for gout and gastritis.

The exterior was insulated with bricks between the exterior's unpainted weatherboards and the interior's lath and plaster walls.

This was so that when the plaster with Ptolemy's name fell off, Sostratus's name would be visible in the stone.

Mezzo-fresco is painted on nearly-dry plaster was defined by the sixteenth-century author Ignazio Pozzo as " firm enough not to take a thumb-print " so that the pigment only penetrates slightly into the plaster.

It stands 3. 8 meters high, was molded in hammered copper from the plaster original, and covered with 22-karat gold leaf.

This refers to the Turkish governor of Athens, Tzisdarakis, who is recorded by a chronicler as having " destroyed one of Hadrian's columns with gunpowder " in order to re-use the marble to make plaster for the mosque that he was building in the Monastiraki district of the city.

The bones were measured and drawn, then a plaster cast was taken of the skull by artist William Scoular.

His Maserati was specially modified so that he could use all three of its pedals with his left foot ; his right was still in plaster.

" He also began doing more carving, rather than the method popular with his contemporaries, that of modeling in clay or plaster which would be cast in metal, and by 1908 he worked almost exclusively by carving.

The additional a secco work would be done to make changes, and sometimes to add small details, but also because not all colours can be achieved in true fresco, because only some pigments work chemically in the very alkaline environment of fresh lime-based plaster.

The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched ( the original meaning of graffiti ) as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet ( the way Romans made notes ), or are in cuneiform writing, impressed with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.

He also made unusually extensive use, on both paper and plaster, of a " blind stylus ", scratching lines which leave only an indentation, but no mark.

Painted terra-cotta cones for torches were also embedded in the plaster.

50 years later he was delighted when Cooper and I told him that we had come upon this sculpture in a collection that also included the original plaster of his cubist head.

Coins found within this plaster date from the time of Alexander Jannaeus ( 104 – 76 BC ), while a separate collection of coins, dating from the time of the Great Revolt ( AD 66 – 70 ), were also found.

Painted terra-cotta cones for torches were also embedded in the plaster.

Scott also designed the two Cast Courts 1870 – 73 to the southeast of the garden ( the site of the ' Brompton Boilers '), these vast spaces have ceilings in height to accommodate the plaster casts of parts of famous buildings, including Trajan's Column ( in two separate pieces ).

The final part of the museum designed by Scott was the Art Library and what is now the sculpture gallery on the south side of the garden, built 1877 – 83, the exterior mosaic panels in the parapet were designed by Reuben Townroe who also designed the plaster work in the library, Sir John Taylor designed the book shelves and cases, also this was the first part of the museum to have electric lighting.

He also considers the practical uses of various stones, such as the minerals necessary for the manufacture of glass ; for the production of various pigments of paint such as ochre ; and for the manufacture of plaster.

This technology also eliminates the need to make a plaster cast for brace construction.

Angled chutes called were also set at numerous points in the castle walls, enabling stones or boiling oil to be poured on the heads of attackers passing by underneath, and white plaster was used in the castle ’ s construction for its resistance to fire.

Sarcophagi – sometimes metal or plaster as well as limestone – were also used by the ancient Romans until the early Christian burial preference for interment underground, often in a limestone sepulchre, led to their falling out of favor.

Previously called the Red Salon, the space underwent thorough renovations in 1901, updating it to the Edwardian style that was popular at the time, giving it boiserie panelling formed from plaster mouldings, a layered crown moulding, as well as windows and doors with chambranled montants, the latter openings also equipped with moulded, classical overdoors.

The interiors are also in keeping with the English Tudor architectural style found on most of the older buildings in the area, with thick plaster walls, hardwood floors, and leaded windows ( since replaced with more energy-efficient double-pane windows ).

Soane also acquired Sir Richard Westmacott's plaster model for Nymph unclasping her Zone, displayed at the back of the recess in the Picture Room.

Soane also acquired Sir Richard Westmacott's plaster model for Nymph unclasping her Zone and the plaster model of John Flaxman's memorial sculpture of William Pitt the Younger.

The internal construction of the building is also revealed, seen in exposed areas of the structure, such as the basement red-brick pillars, or the wooden wall frames, with wooden latticework backing the external plaster covering.

The term plaster can refer to gypsum plaster ( also known as plaster of Paris ), lime plaster, or cement plaster.