Plaster cast of decorative capital
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- Item
- Mid 19th century-early 20th century
Part of Plaster Casts
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Plaster cast of decorative capital
Part of Plaster Casts
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Plaster cast of decorated Corinthian capital
Part of Plaster Casts
Attic of Corinthian order, but unusually highly decorated.
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Plaster cast of architectural fragment
Part of Plaster Casts
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Plaster cast of panel decorated with vase, birds and foliage
Part of Plaster Casts
In relief.
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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 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 cherub with dolphin
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Andrea Verrocchio. Currently in the National Museum of Bargello, Florence, Italy.
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Plaster sculpture.
Barr, James
Volume II.
Brown, Duncan
Plaster cast of capital with monk
Part of Plaster Casts
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Plaster cast of Berlin Adorante
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Original: Also know as 'Youth Supplian' or 'Praying Boy'.
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.
Lobey Dosser & Rank Bajin, North Woodside Road, Glasgow
Part of 'Music And Some Other Arts', and colour photo.
Trotter, Robert
Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior
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: Also known as: Discobolus, Fighting Gladiator, Hector, Heros Combattant, Borghese Gladiator. Particularly admired for its truthful rendering of anatomy. A Hellenistic sculpture actually portraying a swordsman, created at Ephesus about 100 BCE. Listed in first catalogue of casts as Greek, in the Louvre and was bought from Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Plaster cast of lion and serpent
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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: Antoine-Louis Barye (Paris, 1795-1875). Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Volume II.
Brown, Duncan
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.
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Plaster cast of Germanicus (Marcellus)
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: The original scaled Roman statue of c50BC by the sculptor Kleomenes. The Nude male statue, erroneously identified as Germanicus, a member of the family of the Emperor Augustus, probably should be considered a portrait of a member of a wealthy family of the late Republic. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Part of Plaster Casts
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Small statue of angel, original wings lost.
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Plaster cast of Apoxyomenos (Vatican Apoxyomenos)
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: An athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument that the Romans called a strigil. This cast is of the legs of the cast only. Original currently in the collection of the Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican, Rome, Italy.
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.
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Lobey Dosser & Rank Bajin, North Woodside Road, Glasgow
Part of 'Music And Some Other Arts', and colour photo.
Trotter, Robert
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Part of 'Music And Some Other Arts', same negative with picture 183 ref no: 14/P76.
Trotter, Robert
Part of 'By The Wayside', same negative with picture 269 ref no: 2/257.
Trotter, Robert
Part of 'Music And Some Other Arts'.
Trotter, Robert
Sculpture Garden, M.O.M.A., New York
Part of 'Music And Some Other Arts'.
Trotter, Robert
Volume II.
Brown, Duncan
Volume I.
Brown, Duncan
Part of 'On The Way'.
Trotter, Robert
Volume II.
Brown, Duncan
Volume II.
Brown, Duncan
Part of 'On The Way'.
Trotter, Robert
Part of 'At Work'.
Trotter, Robert
Volume I.
Brown, Duncan
Volume II.
Brown, Duncan
Poster for an exhibition entitled 'An Exhibition of Sculpture in the Home'
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised an exhibition organised by The Arts Council Scottish Committee that focused on sculpture in the home. The exhibition was held at The Glasgow School of Art and ran from the 17th of November to the 5th of December 1953.
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Poster for 'Berlin - Kulturstadt Europas 1988', Germany
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Poster for 'Berlin - Kulturstadt Europas 1988' [Berlin European City of Culture], Berlin, Germany. Artwork featured is 'Berliner Skulpturen' by Bjorn Norgard, 1986/87.
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Volume II.
Brown, Duncan
Volume II.
Brown, Duncan
Printed page of photographs featuring female students
Printed page featuring three scanned black and white photographs. Top left depicts five women, likely GSA students, posed and smiling on a set of stairs; top right depicts two women wearing artists smocks stood next to a plaster bust; bottom right depicts fifteen women, likely students, and one man, likely their teacher, posed on the same stairs. The page is captioned ‘Diploma June 12th 1934 in Design & Decorative Art GSC’.
Wilson, Jeanne
Poster for an exhibition entitled 'Ten Years'
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised an exhibition of work by artists who graduated from The Glasgow School Of Art's sculpture department between 1979 and 1989. The exhibition was curated by Cliff Bowen who worked as a sculpture lecturer from 1973 until 1978. It was held in The Glasgow School Of Art's Newbery Gallery in the Newbery Tower from the 4th of August until the 1st of September and was sponsored by the Ian McTaggart Trust.
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Part of 'The City As Setting'.
Trotter, Robert
Poster for the sculpture department degree show
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised the work of graduating sculpture students which was showcased in The Glasgow School Of Art degree show in 1984. The exhibition was held in The Glasgow School Of Art's Haldane Building from the 14th to the 21st of June.
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