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Forensic sculpture and the uncannily human clay heads

"There is a point when there are suddenly twice as many people in the class."

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War and disfigurement

The fighting methods of World War I brought with them a huge increase in disfiguring facial injury. See how surgeons and sculptors helped injured men face the world again.

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The relationship between science and art

Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.

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The last glass-eye maker in Britain

Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.

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  • A sculptor's yard with sculptors working on statues; further completed sculptures around, and an elegant couple looking on. Engraving.
  • Three sculptors carving a colossal marble head. Etching by L. Lowenstam after Sir L. Alma-Tadema.
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
  • A sculptor who carves statues from wood, stone and crystal, in his workshop. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Sir Ronald Ross standing next to a bust of himself, and Janko Bragovitch (sculptor). Photograph by Grove, Son and Boulton, 1926.
  • Anatomy improv'd and illustrated with regard to the uses thereof in designing: not only laid down from an examen of the bones and muscles of the human body, but also demonstrated and exemplified from the most celebrated antique statues in Rome. Exhibited in a great number of copper plates, with all the figures in various views / Intended originally for y use of the Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture. And carried on under the care and inspection of Charles Errard director of the same in Rome. The dissections made by Doc[to]r Ber[nardin]o Genga ... The explanations and indexes added by ... John Maria Lancissi ... First published at Rome by Dom di Rossi and now reengraven ... And republish'd by John Senex. A work of great use to painters, sculptors, statuaries and all others studious in the noble art of designing.
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Perspective tour with Katharine Dowson

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