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Humanities Matter by Brill
Episode 33: Reshaping the Lost Wax Casting Technique—The Methods of Medardo Rosso, with Sharon Hecker
April 07, 2021
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Season 2
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Episode 29
Key to the revolutionary ideas of 19th century Italian modernist sculptor Medardo Rosso are his materials and technique. But for a long time, scholars and experts on his work took little time to truly explore these.
In this episode, Dr. Sharon Hecker, art historian and curator, and author of a recent Brill publication on Medardo Rosso titled Finding Lost Wax: The Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient Casting Technique and the Experiments of Medardo Rosso, talks about how this sculptor took an age-old lost wax technique and remodeled it in radical ways and how his work and life are a reflection of art and artists in 19th century Italy and Paris.
Guest: Dr Sharon Hecker
Host: Leigh Giangreco