Plaster Crafts
Posted in Craft, Interior DecorationWhat is plaster crafts? Plaster crafts is being used for making decorative items, creating beautiful sculptures and for painting surfaces and many other crafts. The most famous is Paris plaster crafts. In Greece and Rome, plaster of Paris was used to create replicas of the most famous works related to art. But it is the Egyptians who invented a very unusual method of using it. They perfected the art of plaster casting and used them to cast the heads of the dead in order to create an exact replica of their likeness. In the 18th and 19th centuries, use of finely ground gypsum to make decorative pieces was very popular. Fresco paintings were also very popular. Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel is one of the famous examples of fresco work.
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