The replicas will be installed in a castle in south-west France where the originals long resided. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - Two 16th-century sculptures, jewels of French Renaissance art, have been on display since 1908 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The statues, both from the early 1500s and by an anonymous sculptor, represent Biblical scenes entitled “Entombment of Christ” and “Pieta With Donors.” The technology to be employed in copying the sculptures was described to AFP by Mr Francis Rigenbach, who heads the Perigord atelier, and Mr C. Griffith Mann, the Met’s medieval art curator.
He added that “90 per cent of the artistic work” will involve reproducing signs of wear, such as the patina on the ageing marble originals – though both statues are considered exceptionally well-preserved. “And when you see these facsimile sculptures in Biron, you’ll surely feel the same emotion as if you were standing before the originals,” he told AFP in New York.
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