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Plaster cast of Nike of Samothrace (Winged Victory)

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.

Original: A second century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Discovered in 1863, on the island of Samothrace. Thought to be by a discple of Lysippus or by pupils of Scopas. It was created to not only honor the goddess, Nike, but to honor a sea battle. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.

Plaster cast of panel scene with figures

  • PC/071
  • Item
  • Mid 19th century-early 20th century
  • Part of Plaster Casts

In relief. Bears "Commission Royale Belge Atelier du Moulage, Bruxelles" maker's stamp.

Commission Royale Belge Atelier du Moulage Bruxelles

Plaster cast of Queen

  • PC/053
  • Item
  • Mid 19th century-early 20th century
  • Part of Plaster Casts

Body of a Queen with the head of a King.

This item was damaged in the fire in the Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. It underwent conservation and consolidation work in 2016.

Plaster cast of Queen

  • PC/032B
  • Item
  • Mid 19th century-early 20th century
  • Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast copies of sculptures from the church of Notre-Dame de Corbeil, Essonne, France. The original sculptures were previously displayed in the Musée des Monuments as King Clovis I of the Franks (465 - 511) and his wife Queen Clotilde (474 – 545). However, they are now housed in the Louvre where they are catalogued as possibly the Old Testament monarchs, King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

Plaster cast of relief from story of Romulus and Remus

  • PC/074
  • Item
  • Mid 19th century-early 20th century
  • Part of Plaster Casts

Matron with bambini, sea god, domestic animals (bull, sheep and frog). Original: Marble. Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace), Rome, Italy. Bears "Musées Nationaux Moulage, Paris" maker's stamp.

Musées Nationaux Moulage, Paris

Plaster cast of Saint George

  • PC/037
  • Item
  • Mid 19th century-early 20th century
  • Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.

Original: Donatello, c1416. Was placed in a niche on the north wall of Orsanmichele, Florence, Italy. Original in Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy.

Plaster cast of Sarcophagus of Giustina

  • PC/036A
  • Item
  • Mid 19th century-early 20th century
  • Part of Plaster Casts

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. Annotated "182B Brucciani & Co, London".

D Brucciani & Co

Plaster cast of Sarcophagus of Giustina

  • PC/036B
  • Item
  • Mid 19th century-early 20th century
  • Part of Plaster Casts

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. Annotated "182A Brucciani & Co, London".

D Brucciani & Co

Plaster cast of Standing Discobolus (Discophoros)

Original: Discovered in 1781 on Esquiline Hill. Considered to be a copy of an earlier Greek original. The popularity of the sculpture in antiquity was no doubt due to its representation of the athletic ideal. Discus-throwing was the first element in the pentathlon, and while pentathletes were in some ways considered inferior to those athletes who excelled at a particular sport, their physical appearance was much admired. This was because no one particular set of muscles was over-developed, with the result that their proportions were harmonious. Listed in the first catalogue of casts as Greek, located in Vatican and bought from Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Photographed in GSA 1915.

Plaster cast of Teucer

  • PC/054
  • Item
  • Mid 19th century to 20th century
  • Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.

Original: Sir Hamo Thornycroft, 1881. The champion Greek archer Teucer was one of the heroes of Homer's story of the Trojan War. Original currently in the collection of Tate Britain, London, UK.

Plaster cast of the Belvedere Apollo (also called Pythian Apollo)

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.

Original: The Apollo is thought to be a Roman copy of Hadrianic date (120 - 140 BC) of a lost bronze original made between 350 and 325 BC by the Greek sculptor Leochares. Statue depicts the Greek god Apollo, who has just overtaken the serpent Python, the cthonic serpent of Delphi. Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine, healing and plague; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Listed in first catalogue of casts as Greco-Roman and from the Vatican Museum, and purchased from D. Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the Vatican Museum, Rome, italy.

Plaster cast of the Dead Christ Tended by Angels

  • PC/038
  • Item
  • Mid 19th century-early 20th century
  • Part of Plaster Casts

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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