- PC/191
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- Mid 19th century-early 20th century
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Plaster casts of double capital with stylised ornamentation
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Collection of plaster casts comprising human figures, architectural fragments, plaster friezes, plaster reliefs, marble reliefs, tondos and busts.
Casts were used as an important teaching aid by the School, from the late 19th century onwards. The casts are generally based on classical statuary and were originally sourced from Greek, Roman and later Italian and medieval periods. Whilst not totally unique (most art schools in the UK and across Europe owned their own collections, purchased from established suppliers in London, Paris etc.), their continued existence within their original setting gives them an added significance. Importantly, the Glasgow School of Art's photographic archive contains many period images of how these casts have been used by staff and students since they were first introduced.
The majority of GSA's plaster cast collection was located in the School's Mackintosh Building at the time of a fire in the building on 23rd May 2014. As a result the majority of the collection suffered damage, of varying degrees, and all casts were subsequently surveyed by a conservator. Six casts were lost in the fire and eleven larger casts have undergone remedial conservation in 2016-17. The majority of the remaining casts have undergone cleaning before being repositioned around GSA's campus during 2019.
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Plaster cast of wooden carved decorated panel with foliage and two Satyr-like figures
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Panel showing scrolling foliage with two central figures turned toward each other in relief.
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Plaster cast of water nymph from the Fontaine des Innocents
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Carved in relief, female figure in draped clothes. Figure is leaning on a sythe with a jug pouring out water at her feet. Original: Jean Goujon, c1550. Marble. Paris, France.
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Plaster cast of water nymph from the Fontaine des Innocents
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Carved in relief, female figure in draped clothes. Figure is holding the jug and pouring out water (front view). Original: Jean Goujon, c1550. Marble. Paris, France.
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Plaster cast of water nymph from the Fontaine des Innocents
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Carved in relief, female figure in draped clothes. Figure is holding the jug and pouring out water (back view). Original: Jean Goujon, c1550. Marble. Paris, France.
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Plaster cast of water nymph from the Fontaine des Innocents
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Carved in relief, female figure in draped clothes. Figure is carrying an object. Original: Jean Goujon, c1550. Marble. Paris, France.
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Plaster cast of votive relief of Dionysus and Icarius
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In relief. Original: c100AD. Marble. Currently in the National Museum, Naples, Italy.
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Plaster cast of Virgin and Child
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Original: Andrea della Robbia, c1487. Blue and white tin-glazed terracotta. Florence, Italy. The original relief is believed to have been commissioned by Gabriele di Cambio de' Medici, whose marriage to Lucrezia di Alessandro Rondinelli took place in 1487-88. The style of the relief is related to that of Andrea del Verroccio.
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Plaster cast of Virgin adoring the Child, with God the Father and angels
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Original: Andrea della Robbia, c1479. Glazed terracotta. A variant of the Brizi Adoration relief at La Verna, Italy. Currently in the collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. Annotated: "2168".
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Plaster cast of two-handled urn decorated with classical figures
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Plaster cast of top part of stele with antefixa ornament and Greek inscription
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With stylised leaves and Greek lettering. Bears illegible maker's stamp. Annotated with faint, illegible Greek lettering.
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Plaster cast of top part of heraldic shield, with helm, crest and mantling
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Plaster cast of top capital with foliate ornament
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Capital decorated with stylized leaves with portion of pilaster.
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Plaster cast of tondo from relief portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
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Original: Agostino di Duccio, c1450. Basilica Malatesta, Rimini, Italy. Annotated: "15.562" (thought to be an old catalogue reference).
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Original: c150AD. Marble. Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Rome, Italy.
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Plaster cast of the Rape of Europa
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Plaster cast of the Dead Christ Tended by Angels
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Original: Donatello, c1435–1443. Carved marble in low relief. Original currently in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. previously incorrectly referenced as 'Pieta' meaning a depiction of the Virgin cradling Christ's body, due to similarity to Donatello's relief sculpture of the same subject and style.
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Plaster cast of stele with decorative strapwork
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Stele with strips or ribbons of ornamentation. Annotated with "7".
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Stele in two parts; one with point and ornamented with fluting, the second with two flowers carved in relief. Original: The Temple of Thesius, Athens, Greece. Annotated with illegible lettering.
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Plaster cast of standing putto
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Small putto statue supported by tree stump.
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Plaster cast of Spinelli family coat of arms on octagonal panel
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Plaque showing coat of arms with two sides. Original: Brunelleschi. Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence, Italy.
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Original: Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, London, UK.
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Plaster cast of shoulder muscle with neck and arm muscle structure
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Plaster cast of shoulder muscle
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Annotated "D.M.T" on reverse (painted).
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Plaster cast of section of pilaster with vase, foliage and putti
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Original: Tullio Lombardo, c1851. Venice, Italy. Annotated ""Tullio Lombardo." and "205".
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Plaster cast of section of frieze with foliage and decorated borders
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Plaster cast of section of entablature
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Entablature with egg and dart enrichment and a series of small masks.
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Plaster cast of section of cornice with bands of ornament
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Ornament including bands of egg and darts enrichment.
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Plaster cast of section of architrave with vines and eagle in clipeus (Version 2)
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Plaster cast of section of architrave with vines and eagle in clipeus (Version 1)
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Plaster cast of section of architrave with vines and eagle in clipeus
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Original: Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1452. Bronze. Gates of Paradise, Baptistry di San Giovanni, Florence, Italy. Currently in the collection of the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence, Italy. In 2019, this item was conserved and now includes a central fragment, which was originally catalogued as a separate cast (PC/187).
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Plaster cast of sculptural fragment of a foot
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Plaster cast of Sarcophagus of Giustina
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Original: Attributed to Gregorio di Allegretto, 1476. Marble. Church of Santa Giustina, Padua, Italy. On the front of the sarcophagus the body of the saint is carved in relief, lying on a bier and covered with a cloth. At the ends are reliefs of angels swinging censers.
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Plaster cast of Saint Jerome (Version 2)
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Plaster cast of Saint Jerome (Version 1)
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plaster cast of Saint Jerome, the patron saint of libraries.
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Plaster cast of roundel with flower
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Plaster cast of remembrance panel
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Panel with commemorations flanked by man and woman with cherubs and surrounded by decorative ornamentation.
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Plaster cast of relief panel with vases
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Panel in base relief in frame; tiers of vases and stylised plants.
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Plaster cast of relief panel with profile portrait head
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Annotated but illegible.
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Plaster cast of putti and foliage tondo
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Putti surrounded by symmetrical curling foliage. Thought to be c16th, Italian.
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Plaster cast of portion of a column with leaves
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Relief panel. Annotated "810".
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Plaster cast of pilaster, part of a set with decorated capital
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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze (Block XL from the North frieze)
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Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze
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Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze
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Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze
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Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze
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Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
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