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Plaster Casts - Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present
Rune Frederiksen, Eckart Marchand
Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG, 2010
ISBN 9783110216875 , 764 Seiten
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Table of Contents
6
Preface
12
Introduction
14
Antiquity
24
Plaster Casts in Antiquity
26
The Baiae Casts and the Uniqueness of Roman Copies
48
The Renaissance
60
Plaster and Plaster Casts in Renaissance Italy
62
“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
94
“Makinge of moldes for the walles” – The Stuccoes of Nonsuch: materials, methods and origins
112
Making and Distribution from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
132
“Moulded from the best originals of Rome” – Eighteenth- Century Production and Trade of Plaster Casts after Antique Sculpture in Germany
134
Laocoön in Scandinavia – Uses and Workshops 1587 onwards
156
How the Smiths Made a Living
176
Artists’ Academies
192
Plaster Casts and Memory Technique: Nicolas Vleughels’ display of cast collections after the antique in the French Academy in Rome ( 1725– 1793)
194
Incorporating Antiquity – The Berlin Academy of Arts’ Plaster Cast Collection from 1786 until 1815: acquisition, use and interpretation
210
Art and Pedagogy in the Plaster Cast Collection of the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City
242
Artists’ Workshops
262
Picturing the Use, Collecting and Display of Plaster Casts in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Artists’ Studios in Antwerp and Brussels
264
Modern Sculpture in the Making: Antonio Canova and plaster casts
282
Chantrey and the Original Models
302
Live Body Moulding and Maternal Devotion in Marcello’s Studio
320
Shattering the Mould: Medardo Rosso and the poetics of plaster
332
“Impressionism Solidified” – Umberto Boccioni’s Works in Plaster and the Definition of Modernity in Sculpture
344
Outside In: the after-life of the plaster cast in contemporary culture
364
Inside Out: a process for production
372
Conservation
380
The Plaster Decoration of the Choir Screens in the Church of Our Lady in Halberstadt: a current conservation project
382
The Restoration of Two Plaster Casts Acquired by Velázquez in the Seventeenth Century: the Hercules and Flora Farnese
398
The Contribution of Plaster Sculptures and Casts to Successful Conservation Interventions at the National Gallery of Greece, Athens
416
Architectural Models and Collections after Gems
430
Plaster Models and Plaster Casts of Classical Architecture and its Decoration
432
A Dactyliotheca by James Tassie and Other Collections of Gem Impressions at the University of Göttingen
448
A Munificent Gift: cast collections of gem impressions from the Sir Henry Wellcome Trust
464
Casting Nations: The National Museum
476
“The Question of Casts” – Collecting and Later Reassessment of the Cast Collections at South Kensington
478
The Reproductive Continuum: plaster casts, paper mosaics and photographs as complementary modes of reproduction in the nineteenth- century museum
498
Plaster Casts and Postcards: the postcard edition of the Musée de Sculpture Comparée at Paris
514
More Valuable than Originals? The Plaster Cast Collection in the National Museum of Prague ( 1818– 2008): its history and predecessors
532
Building a Small Albertinum in Moscow: the correspondence between Georg Treu and Ivan Tsvetaev
552
Cast Collecting in the United States
570
Colonial Contexts: the changing meanings of the cast collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum
590
Display and the Future of Plaster Casts
608
Sir John Soane’s Casts as Part of his Academy of Architecture at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
610
The Museum as a Manifesto of Taste and Ideology: the twentieth- century plaster cast collection of archaeology and art at the University of Padua
624
Living with Plaster Casts
640
Le jardin des plâtres: un autre regard sur les collections de moulages The Garden of Plaster Casts: a different view on cast collections
648
List of Contributors
664
List of Figures
672
List of Colour Plates
698
Colour Plates
704
Index of Names and Places
740
Subject index
758
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