- NMC/0178F
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- 1794-1818
View of Florence. Published by R.H. Laurie and Jas. Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
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View of Florence. Published by R.H. Laurie and Jas. Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
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View of Venice. Published by R.H. Laurie and Jas. Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
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This sketchbook consists of 81 pages of sketches made by Charles Rennie Mackintosh during his trip to Italy in 1891 funded by his Greek Thomson travelling scholarship prize money. The subjects he sketched are mainly architectural, with the one he felt to be most impressive being labelled 'A Caution'. Each sketch is labelled with the name of the city or town in which it was sketched. In 1890 Mackintosh won the Alexander 'Greek' Thomson Travelling Scholarship with a design for a public hall, which enabled him to take an extensive tour abroad from February to July 1891. He left Glasgow for London on 21 March 1891, sailing from Tilbury on the Thames on 27 March and arriving in Naples on 5 April. He then visited Palermo in Sicily, Rome, Orvieto, Siena, Florence, Pisa, Pistoia, Bologna, Ravenna, Ferrara, Venice, Padua, and Vicenza, arriving in Verona on 10 June 1891. The Sketchbook contains drawings from the later part of Mackintosh's tour, from 10th June, with sketches, mostly of architectural and sculptural details, beginning with Verona. It covers Verona (11-14 June); Mantua (14 June); Cremona (14-15 June); Brescia (16 June); Bergamo (17 June); Lecco (18 June); Cadenabbia and Lake Como (19-25 June); Como (26-27 June); Milan (28 June-6 July); Pavia (7 July-?); Certosa di Pavia (probably several days around 12 July); Paris and Chateau d'Ecouen (late July?); Antwerp (late July? - briefly visited on his return journey). It also contains several pages of designs for the Glasgow Art Club (1892-3) and the Glasgow Herald Building (1893-5). The drawings themselves are almost all pencil sketches, some of which are now quite faint.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Blind Window, Certosa di Pavia
Painted on Mackintosh's tour of Italy in 1891 with Alexander 'Greek' Thomson travelling scholarship.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Sketch of (Italian) decorative panels
Italian subject matter. A study from Mackintosh's tour of Italy in 1891 as part of the Alexander 'Greek' Thomson travelling scholarship.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Study of main facade.
Fulton, James Black
Plant study with hemlock seedhead. Ravenna coat of arms, top right.
Fulton, James Black
Bronze horses, St Marks, Venice (The Triumphal Quadriga)
Study of equine statue.
Fulton, James Black
Two figures from the tomb of Canova, Venice
Study of figures from the tomb of Canova in Santa Maria dei Gloriosa, Venice.
Fulton, James Black
Study of building's facade.
Fulton, James Black
Fontana delle Tartarughe, Rome
Study of the 'Turtle Fountain' by Giacomo della Porta.
Fulton, James Black
Fontana delle Tartarughe, Rome
Study of the 'Turtle Fountain' by Giacomo della Porta.
Fulton, James Black
Plaster cast of cherub roundel with wings (Version 1)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons (Version 4)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons
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. All that remains is a fragment of a hand.
Original: This statue group was found in 1506 on the Esquiline Hill in Rome and immediately identified as the Laocoon described by Pliny the Elder as a masterpiece of the sculptors of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus around 40-30 BC. It shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents. In 1587 Giovanni Battista Armenini's treatise on painting and recommended all students to draw from the casts of the finest statues in Rome- 'the Laocoon, the Hercules, the Apollo, the Great Torso....' of the Belvedere. Listed in first catalogue as Greco-Roman and that the original is located in the Vatican. Original currently in the collection of the Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy.
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 Laocoon and his Sons (Version 3)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons (Version 5)
Part of Plaster Casts
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 the Dying Slave
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: Michelangelo, originally for the tomb of Pope Julius II in 1505, began to carve the Slaves in 1513, as part of a modified project. On the Pope's death, the project changed once again, for financial reasons. Michelangelo donated the Slaves to Roberto Strozzi, who brought them to France. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Plaster cast of the Dying Slave (Version 1)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of the Dying Slave (Version 2)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Standing Discobolus (Discophoros)
Part of Plaster Casts
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 cherub roundel with wings (Version 2)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of cherub roundel with wings
Part of Plaster Casts
Head of Cherub with wings in relief in circular panel.
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Plaster cast of the Belvedere Apollo (also called Pythian Apollo)
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 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
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 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.
Architectural studies (Italy and Scotland)
Florence, Sienna, Aberdeenshire, Verona. Four mounted as one. A: Rape of Polyxena by Fedi in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. July 1899. B: Madonna over South entrance to Cathedral Siena by Michelozzo. April 1899 C: Crathes Castle, Aberdeenshire. Oct 1900 D:Palazzo del Consiglio Verona. Aug 1899.
Fulton, James Black
Plaster cast of capital from the Temple of Vesta
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Composite capital form the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, of the Greco Romano style. Temple of Vesta is a ruined temple in Tivoli, Italy from the 1st century BC.
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Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons (Version 1)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons (Version 2)
Part of Plaster Casts
Panel for the Rose Boudoir, Turin
One of a set of four panels shown at the Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin in 1902.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Panel for the Rose Boudoir, Turin
One of a set of four panels shown at the Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin in 1902.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Panel for the Rose Boudoir, Turin
One of a set of four panels shown at the Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin in 1902.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Cavaliere Ufficionale medal (Version 2)
Cavaliere Ufficionale medal (Version 5)
Italian order (medal and pin) presented to Fra Newbery for approving Glasgow School of Art Pavilion at Turin Exhibition, 1902.
Cavaliere Ufficionale medal (Version 4)
Cavaliere Ufficionale medal (Version 3)
Decorative art poster from Turin Exhibition
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Bistolfi, Leonardo
Cavaliere Ufficionale medal (Version 1)
Panel for the Rose Boudoir, Turin
One of a set of four panels shown at the Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin in 1902.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Sketchbook: Italy and Richmond (Page 1)
Sketchbook: Italy and Richmond (Page 4)
Sketchbook: Italy and Richmond (Page 11)
Sketchbook: Italy and Richmond (Page 15)
Sketchbook: Italy and Richmond (Page 22)
Sketchbook: Italy and Richmond (Page 25)
Sketchbook: Italy and Richmond (Page 26)
Sketchbook: Italy and Richmond (Page 27)