Figure 15

Plaster molding of the 3D resin print of the head of Apollo of Lillebonne during the 2016 CAST:ING meeting, Coubertin foundry, France. Top left: plasticine (black) is used to mark the sections of the piece mold on the resin head (yellow). Top middle and right: plaster is applied to the model in sections. Bottom left: the completed piece mold. Bottom middle: the sections of the mold are separated. Wax or clay will be applied on the internal surface by different methods (slabs, painting, balls, see figs. 17, 19, 24). Bottom right: the reassembled piece mold is used for slush molding. The height is 18 cm (two-thirds of the original size). Original: Apollo of Lillebonne, France, 1st century BCE–1st century CE, H. 193 cm (Musée du Louvre, inv. Br37 [NIII65]). See fig. 288.