Description
This volume originates from an international conference held at Oxford University in 2007. Texts by classical archaeologists, art historians, students of the history of collecting, curators, conservators and artists address objects and themes from antiquity to the present day, ancient Egypt to 20th-century Mexico and contemporary Europe. They explore status, reception and functionsof casts as well as hands-on issues, such as the making, trading, display and conservation of plaster casts. A handbook for students, academics, curators and collectors, the text will become a standard work on the role of plaster casts in the history of Western sculpture.
Chapter
Plaster and Plaster Casts in Renaissance Italy
“Giving away the moulds will cause no damage to his Majesty’s casts” – New Documents on the Vienna Jüngling and the Sixteenth-Century Dissemination of Casts after the Antique in the Holy Roman Empire
“Makinge of moldes for the walles” – The Stuccoes of Nonsuch: materials, methods and origins
Making and Distribution from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
“Moulded from the best originals of Rome” – Eighteenth-Century Production and Trade of Plaster Casts after Antique Sculpture in Germany
Laocoön in Scandinavia – Uses and Workshops 1587 onwards
How the Smiths Made a Living
Plaster Casts and Memory Technique: Nicolas Vleughels’ display of cast collections after the antique in the French Academy in Rome (1725–1793)
Incorporating Antiquity – The Berlin Academy of Arts’ Plaster Cast Collection from 1786 until 1815: acquisition, use and interpretation
Art and Pedagogy in the Plaster Cast Collection of the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City
Picturing the Use, Collecting and Display of Plaster Casts in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Artists’ Studios in Antwerp and Brussels
Modern Sculpture in the Making: Antonio Canova and plaster casts
Chantrey and the Original Models
Live Body Moulding and Maternal Devotion in Marcello’s Studio
Shattering the Mould: Medardo Rosso and the poetics of plaster
“Impressionism Solidified” – Umberto Boccioni’s Works in Plaster and the Definition of Modernity in Sculpture
Outside In: the after-life of the plaster cast in contemporary culture
Inside Out: a process for production
The Plaster Decoration of the Choir Screens in the Church of Our Lady in Halberstadt: a current conservation project
The Restoration of Two Plaster Casts Acquired by Velázquez in the Seventeenth Century: the Hercules and Flora Farnese
The Contribution of Plaster Sculptures and Casts to Successful Conservation Interventions at the National Gallery of Greece, Athens
Architectural Models and Collections after Gems
Plaster Models and Plaster Casts of Classical Architecture and its Decoration
A Dactyliotheca by James Tassie and Other Collections of Gem Impressions at the University of Göttingen
A Munificent Gift: cast collections of gem impressions from the Sir Henry Wellcome Trust
Casting Nations: The National Museum
“The Question of Casts” – Collecting and Later Reassessment of the Cast Collections at South Kensington
The Reproductive Continuum: plaster casts, paper mosaics and photographs as complementary modes of reproduction in the nineteenth-century museum
Plaster Casts and Postcards: the postcard edition of the Musée de Sculpture Comparée at Paris
More Valuable than Originals? The Plaster Cast Collection in the National Museum of Prague (1818–2008): its history and predecessors
Building a Small Albertinum in Moscow: the correspondence between Georg Treu and Ivan Tsvetaev
Cast Collecting in the United States
Colonial Contexts: the changing meanings of the cast collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum
Display and the Future of Plaster Casts
Sir John Soane’s Casts as Part of his Academy of Architecture at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
The Museum as a Manifesto of Taste and Ideology: the twentieth-century plaster cast collection of archaeology and art at the University of Padua
Living with Plaster Casts
Le jardin des plâtres: un autre regard sur les collections de moulages
Making and Distribution from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
Plaster Casts
：Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present
( Transformationen der Antike )
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