Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 6)
- NMC/1620/v6
- Part
- 19th century
Not available / given
577 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 6)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 8)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 9)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 2)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 3)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 4)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 7)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 10)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 5)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 11)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 23)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 12)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 15)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 17)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 19)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 20)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 22)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 13)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 14)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 21)
Not available / given
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 18)
Not available / given
Collection of plaster casts comprising human figures, architectural fragments, plaster friezes, plaster reliefs, marble reliefs, tondos and busts.
Casts were used as an important teaching aid by the School, from the late 19th century onwards. The casts are generally based on classical statuary and were originally sourced from Greek, Roman and later Italian and medieval periods. Whilst not totally unique (most art schools in the UK and across Europe owned their own collections, purchased from established suppliers in London, Paris etc.), their continued existence within their original setting gives them an added significance. Importantly, the Glasgow School of Art's photographic archive contains many period images of how these casts have been used by staff and students since they were first introduced.
The majority of GSA's plaster cast collection was located in the School's Mackintosh Building at the time of a fire in the building on 23rd May 2014. As a result the majority of the collection suffered damage, of varying degrees, and all casts were subsequently surveyed by a conservator. Six casts were lost in the fire and eleven larger casts have undergone remedial conservation in 2016-17. The majority of the remaining casts have undergone cleaning before being repositioned around GSA's campus during 2019.
*Not available / given
Plaster cast of Antinous (Version 1)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Antinous (Version 2)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Antinous (Version 3)
Part of Plaster Casts
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.
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 Charioteer of Delphi
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 life-size bronze statue of a chariot driver was found in 1896 at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi and is also known as Heniokhos, the rein-holder. The statue was erected at Delphi in 474BC, to commemorate the victory of a chariot team in the Pythean Games, which were held at Delphi every four years in honor of Pythean Apollo. Original currently in the collection of the Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece.
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.
Plaster cast of Mercury (Version 1)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Mercury (Version 2)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Mercury (Version 3)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Mercury (Version 4)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Nike of Samothrace (Winged Victory)
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: A second century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Discovered in 1863, on the island of Samothrace. Thought to be by a discple of Lysippus or by pupils of Scopas. It was created to not only honor the goddess, Nike, but to honor a sea battle. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Plaster cast of Dione and Aphrodite (From Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite)
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: Figures from the east pediment of the Parthenon depicting the birth of Athena. The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, about 438-432 BC. The two figures are thought to be Dione cradling her daughter Aphrodite; they are remarkable for their naturalistic rendering of anatomy blended with a harmonious representation of complex draperies. However, another suggestion is that the two figures on the right are the personification of the Sea (Thalassa) in the lap of the Earth (Gaia). Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.
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.
Plaster cast of a Centaur and Lapiths (Metope South II), part of Parthenon Frieze
Part of Plaster Casts
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’).
Plaster cast of Boy of Subiaco
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: From the group of Niobe and her children at the Galleria Uffizi, Florence, Italy, originally found in Rome in 1583. Niobe boasted about her 14 children (the Niobids) to Leto, mother to only Artemis and Apollo. Leto demanded her children take revenge upon Niobe's hubris. Using arrows, Artemis killed Niobe's daughters and Apollo killed Niobe's sons. This cast shows one son cowering from the onslaught.
Plaster cast of Titan (Version 1)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Titan (Version 2)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Titan (Version 3)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)
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: 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.
Plaster cast of Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)
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: 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.
Plaster cast of Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)
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.
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.
Plaster cast of Crouching Venus (Crouching Aphrodite) (Version 1)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Crouching Venus (Crouching Aphrodite) (Version 2)
Part of Plaster Casts
Part of Plaster Casts
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 cast of Borghese Warrior (Version 1)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior (Version 2)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior (Version 3)
Part of Plaster Casts