Decorative panel showing classical figures; female figures surround the central panel of a male holding some sort of tool. Lower panel shows a central female figure flanked by two contorted males. Original: Michelangelo. Currently in the collection of The National Museum of Bargello, Florence, Italy.
Original: Figure from east pediment of the Parthenon. Acropolis, Athens, 447-432 BC. Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.
Bucrania thought to be from the Temple of Vesta. The Temple of Vesta is an ancient edifice in Rome, Italy, located in the Roman Forum near the Regia and the House of the Vestal Virgins. Listed in first catalogue of casts as Roman and purchased from D. Brucciani.
Original: Shows the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos. Original: Phidias, c442 BC. Marble. Parthenon, Athens, Greece. Currently in the collection of the British Museum (Part of ‘The Elgin Marbles’).
Original: Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite. One of the most copied sculptures of all time. Arms are 17th century replicas. Thought to be an Athenian copy from the first century B.C. of a bronze original derived from the type of the Cnidian Venus of Praxilities (by one of the ones of immediate followers of Cnidian). Original currently in the collection of the Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
Plaster casts of a left and right anatomical feet. Both feet show details of musculature, and the heel of the right foot is slightly elevated. On top of each leg is a maker's stamp that reads "J Giusti & Co Makers, St Vincent St, Glasgow". The inward facing edge of each base includes the inscription "J Giusti & Co, Glasgow". These anatomical feet are the only items in the Giusti Plaster Cast Collection to include such an incription, and the presence of both the inscriptions and the maker's stamp suggests that the feet may have been both sculpted by J. Giusti & Co. (likely in the late 19th century) and subsequently reproduced by the company.
Plaster bust of a young man in armour after a terracotta original from the 15th century sculpted by Antonio Pollaiuolo and held in the Bargello Museum, Florence.
Venus with missing arm, supported by dolphin and cherub. Original: Roman copy of Greek statue c2 BC, of Hellenistic style. Listed in the first catalogue of casts as Greek, located in the 'Florence Gallery' and was purchased from D. Brucciani.
