- DB/135
- Item
- c1853-1896
Volume II.
Brown, Duncan
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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
The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection
Collection of items related to the Glasgow based firm J. Giusti & Co. which specialized in the production of plaster figures, mould making, statuary repair, and other plaster work. The collection is primarily composed of plaster busts and portraits, six moulds, and two medals. The casts and moulds are formed after a range of sculptural styles including ancient Greek and Roman, French Gothic, Italian Renaissance, and 19th century anatomical studies.
The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection highlights mould making and casting processes that were used to produce objects for retail and to repair existing plaster casts. Records from The Glasgow School of Art document purchases and repairs from J. Giusti & Co. from as early as 1890, and casts related to those in the collection were widely used as teaching and learning tools at the GSA through at least mid-20th century.
As most of the items in the collection were used in commercial casting processes, very few items have a plain white, white washed, or decoratively painted surface that are often observed in plaster cast collections. Many of the plaster casts and all of the plaster moulds are widely covered with uneven layers of shellac that appear yellow, red, or brown. Shellac was applied as a sealant and resist agent to prevent existing plaster elements from sticking to fresh plaster elements during the casting process.
In addition to the plaster casts and plaster moulds, several items provide further insights into the material processes employed by J. Giusti & Co. Two medals (likely bronze) showcase the company's involvement with mould making for metal casting, and a gelatine mould is a surviving example of a traditional process used to produce detailed casts in small quantities.
Proudfoot, Alexander
Plaster bust of 'brontolone' (grumpy old man) after Luca della Robbia.
J Giusti & Co
Plaster anatomical portrait showing muscle groups of the face and neck.
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
Gelatine mould of Greek portrait
Mould made of gelatine used to produce plaster copies of a Greek portrait.
J Giusti & Co
Sainte Fortunade reliquary bust
Plaster reproduction of reliquary bust from the church of Saint Martial in Correze, France.
J Giusti & Co
Sainte Fortunade reliquary bust (Version 1)
J Giusti & Co
Sainte Fortunade reliquary bust (Version 2)
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
Mould of unidentfied female bust
Plaster mould of an unidentified female bust.
J Giusti & Co
Plaster mould, likely after the 'Young Octavian' portrait of emperor Augustus in the Vatican Museums.
J Giusti & Co
Mould of 'Young Octavian' (Version 1)
J Giusti & Co
Mould of 'Young Octavian' (Version 2)
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
Left foot with raised heel (Version 1)
J Giusti & Co
Left foot with raised heel (Version 2)
J Giusti & Co
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.
J Giusti & Co
Plaster bust after a terracotta bust of Niccolo da Abruzzo in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, believed to be by Donatello.
D Brucciani & Co
Bust of Niccolo da Uzzano (Version 1)
D Brucciani & Co
Bust of Niccolo da Uzzano (Version 2)
D Brucciani & Co
Plaster copy after the left eye of Michelangelo's David.
J Giusti & Co
Plaster cast after the right ear of Michelangelo's David.
J Giusti & Co
Plaster cast of a left hand.
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
Plaster bust of a child after a late 15th century orginal executed in terracotta by Andrea della Robbia.
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
J Giusti & Co
Small bust after 'Young Octavian'
Small plaster bust, likely after the 'Young Octavian' portrait of the emperor Augustus in the Vatican Museums.
J Giusti & Co
Small bust after 'Young Octavian' (Version 1)
J Giusti & Co
Small bust after 'Young Octavian' (Version 2)
J Giusti & Co
Plaster bust of a boy wearing an ornamented breastplate.
J Giusti & Co