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Plaster cast of head of a horse from Selene's Chariot
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Figure from east pediment of the Parthenon. Acropolis, Athens, 447-432 BC. Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.
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)
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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 Crouching Discobolos
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: The Discobolus of Myron is a famous lost Greek bronze original that was completed towards the end of the Severe period, c460-450 BC. It is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, such as the first to be recovered, the Palombara Discobolus, or smaller scaled versions in bronze. Bought from Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.
Page titled 'Roman and Greek Architecture'. This page features sketches and text comparing Greek and Roman temples.
This is the fifteenth page of James Gorman's collection of handwritten, illustrated pages on the history of architecture which were produced as classwork for 'Section II'.
Please be aware that these pages should be read from NMC/1703A-Z, then NMC/1703AA, AB etc.
Gorman, James
Part of Records and textiles of the Needlework Development Scheme
Greek Islands, possibly Chios. Part of a coarse linen sleeve with formalised tree designs embroidered with horsehair, dyed in shades of rust green and blue.
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Various studies of Classical columns, porticos etc.
Kerr, Robert
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
Part of Plaster Casts
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 fragment of stele
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Stele refers to an upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building. Annotated with Greek text "EYTYXO HPINH NIRON".
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Plaster cast of acroteria from Greek temple
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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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Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Hebe was the Greek goddess of youth and a cup-bearer for the gods. Original currently in the collection of the Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
Plaster cast of Canephora (Kanephoros)
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: Canephora was an honorific office given to unmarried young women in ancient Greece which involved the privilege of leading the procession to sacrifice at festivals.Translated as: "Basket Bearer". Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.
Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze (West Frieze II)
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. Horsemen. 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.
Plaster cast of Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: Created at some time between 130 and 100 BC, to revive pre-hellenistic ideas. It is believed to depict Aphrodite (Venus to the Romans) the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Original excavated in 1820 on the Island of Melos. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Greek Architecture (Early Period)
Page titled 'Greek Architecture'. This page features sketches and text of/about the early history of Greek architecture, including the Treasury of Atreus.
This is the eighth page of James Gorman's collection of handwritten, illustrated pages on the history of architecture which were produced as classwork for 'Section II'.
Please be aware that these pages should be read from NMC/1703A-Z, then NMC/1703AA, AB etc.
Gorman, James