lost-wax casting

process by which a duplicate sculpture (often metal) is cast from an original sculpture
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lost-wax casting

Summary

lost-wax casting is a sculpture technique[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of sculpture_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (518 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • lost-wax casting's image is recorded as Lost Wax-Model of apple in plaster.jpg[3].
  • lost-wax casting's instance of is recorded as sculpture technique[4].
  • lost-wax casting's GND ID is recorded as 4188794-3[5].
  • lost-wax casting's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85106232[6].
  • lost-wax casting's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12471439z[7].
  • lost-wax casting's IdRef ID is recorded as 033904545[8].
  • lost-wax casting's subclass of is recorded as casting[9].
  • lost-wax casting's has use is recorded as art of sculpture[10].
  • lost-wax casting's Commons category is recorded as Lost-wax casting[11].
  • lost-wax casting's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 13336[12].
  • -4500-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of lost-wax casting[13].
  • lost-wax casting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03lqg6[14].
  • lost-wax casting's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300053113[15].
  • lost-wax casting's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 731.456[16].
  • lost-wax casting's location of creation is recorded as Palestine[17].
  • lost-wax casting's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0168195[18].
  • lost-wax casting's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • lost-wax casting's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/lost-wax-process[20].
  • lost-wax casting's FAST ID is recorded as 1074969[21].
  • lost-wax casting's uses is recorded as wax[22].
  • lost-wax casting's uses is recorded as melting[23].
  • lost-wax casting's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03774686n[24].
  • lost-wax casting's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtA2w22SzLJA[25].
  • lost-wax casting's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 159554100[26].
  • lost-wax casting's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/3298[27].

Why It Matters

lost-wax casting ranks in the top 10% of sculpture_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (518 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . IdRef. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Faceted Application of Subject Terminology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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