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Plaster cast of Medici Venus

• PC/196
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Venus with missing arm, supported by branch with 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. Brucc...

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Plaster cast of Teucer

• PC/054
• Item
• Mid 19th century to 20th century

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: Sir Hamo Thornycroft, 1881. The champion Greek archer Teucer was one of the heroes of Homer's story of the Trojan War. Original...

Plaster cast of the Wrestlers

• PC/027
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

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: Antique Boxers, Grecian Boxers, La Lotta, Lottatori. Roman Wrestlers Roman marble sculpture after a lost Greek origin...

Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior

• PC/026A
• Item
• 19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

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 10...

Plaster cast of Shy Venus

• PC/025
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

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 de...

Plaster cast of Crouching Venus (Crouching Aphrodite)

• PC/024
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Also known as: Venere nel bagno, Venere nella conchiglia. Likely to be a Roman adaptation of Doidalses' Crouching Aphrodite (a lost Greek original from the 3rd century BC). Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, ...

Plaster cast of Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)

• PC/023A
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

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 Roman...

Plaster cast of Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)

• PC/023C
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

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...

Plaster cast of Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)

• PC/023B
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

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 Roman...

Plaster cast of Titan

• PC/022
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Greek sculpture from 184 BC. Original currently in the collection of the Staaliche Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Plaster cast of a Centaur and Lapiths (Metope South II), part of Parthenon Frieze

• PC/019
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

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 head of a horse from Selene's Chariot

• PC/018
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

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 Dione and Aphrodite (From Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite)

• PC/017
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

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 ...

Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze

• PC/016P
• Item
• 19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. 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 secon...

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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze

• PC/016N
• Item
• 19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. 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 secon...

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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze

• PC/016J
• Item
• 19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. 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 secon...

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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze

• PC/016I
• Item
• 19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. 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 secon...

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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze

• PC/016E
• Item
• 19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. 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 secon...

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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze

• PC/016D
• Item
• 19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. 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 secon...

Not available / given

Plaster cast of Nike of Samothrace (Winged Victory)

• PC/015
• Item
• 20th century

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 t...

Plaster cast of Mercury

• PC/014
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Greco-Roman attribution, shows Mercury God of merchandise and merchants, commonly identified with the Greek Hermes, fleet-footed messenger of the gods.This item was damaged in the fire in the Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. It unde...

Plaster cast of Standing Discobolus (Discophoros)

• PC/009
• Item
• 19th century

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 ...

Plaster cast of Charioteer of Delphi

• PC/008
• Item
• Mid 19th century-early 20th century

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 Heniokho...

Acropolis, Athens

• NMC/1124
• Item
• c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Acropolis, Athens

• NMC/1105
• Item
• c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Greek & Corinthian orders

• NMC/0721
• Item
• Dec 1949

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Various studies of Classical columns, porticos etc.

Kerr, Robert

Doorway Erectheion, Athens

• NMC/0723
• Item
• Jan 1950

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Various studies of Greek columns, capitals etc.

Kerr, Robert

Ionic Temple on the Ilissus, Athens

• NMC/0699C
• Item
• 1902-1903

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Porteous, James Henry