Plaster casts: Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present. Transformationen der Antike ; vol. 18.

Language: English

Published by Berlin; New York (NY): Walter de Gruyter., 2010

3110208563 / 9783110208566

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XII, 752 p. : Ill., graphs. As new and in foil. - Contents: Preface -- RUNE FREDERIKSEN AND ECKART MARCHAND: Introduction -- Antiquity -- RUNE FREDERIKSEN: Plaster Casts in Antiquity -- CHRISTA LANDWEHR: The Baiae Casts and the Uniqueness of Roman Copies -- The Renaissance -- ECKART MARCHAND: Plaster and Plaster Casts in Renaissance Italy -- WALTER CUPPERI: "Giving away the moulds will cause no damage to his Majesty's casts" - New Documents on the Vienna Jüngling and the Sixteenth-Century Dissemination of Casts after the Antique in the Holy Roman Empire -- MARTIN BIDDLE: "Makinge of moldes for the walles" - The Stuccoes of Nonsuch: materials, methods and origins -- Making and Distribution from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century -- CHARLOTTE SCHREITER: "Moulded from the best originals of Rome" - Eighteenth-Century Production and Trade of Plaster Casts after Antique Sculpture in Germany -- JAN ZAHLE: Laocoön in Scandinavia - Uses and Workshops 1587 onwards -- Informationen -- PETER MALONE: How the Smiths Made a Living -- Artists' Academies -- TOMAS MACSOTAY: Plaster Casts and Memory Technique: Nicolas Vleughels' display of cast collections after the antique in the French Academy in Rome (1725-1793) -- CLAUDIA SEDLARZ: Incorporating Antiquity - The Berlin Academy of Arts' Plaster Cast Collection from 1786 until 1815: acquisition, use and interpretation -- ELIZABETH FUENTES ROJAS: Art and Pedagogy in the Plaster Cast Collection of the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City -- Artists' Workshops -- LÉON E. LOCK: Picturing the Use, Collecting and Display of Plaster Casts in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Artists' Studios in Antwerp and Brussels -- JOHANNES MYSSOK: Modern Sculpture in the Making: Antonio Canova and plaster casts -- MATTHEW GREG SULLIVAN: Chantrey and the Original Models -- JEAN-FRANÇOIS CORPATAUX: Live Body Moulding and Maternal Devotion in Marcello's Studio -- SHARON HECKER: Shattering the Mould: Medardo Rosso and the poetics of plaster -- MARIA ELENA VERSARI: "Impressionism Solidified" - Umberto Boccioni's Works in Plaster and the Definition of Modernity in Sculpture -- SUE MALVERN: Outside In: the after-life of the plaster cast in contemporary culture -- JANE MCADAM FREUD: Inside Out: a process for production Conservation -- DANIELA ARNOLD, TORSTEN ARNOLD AND ELISABETH RÜBER-SCHÜTTE: The Plaster Decoration of the Choir Screens in the Church of Our Lady in Halberstadt: a current conservation project -- ÁNGELES SOLÍS PARRA, JUDIT GASCA MlRAMÓN, SILVIA VlANA, SÁNCHEZ AND JOSÉ MARÍA LUZON NOGUÉ: The Restoration of Two Plaster Casts Acquired by Velazquez in the Seventeenth Century: the Hercules and Flora Farnese -- MARIA KLIAFA AND MICHAEL DOULGERIDIS: The Contribution of Plaster Sculptures and Casts to Successful Conservation Interventions at the National Gallery of Greece, Athens -- Architectural Models and Collections after Gems -- VALENTIN KOCKEL: Plaster Models and Plaster Casts of Classical Architecture and its Decoration -- DANIEL GRAEPLER: A Dactyliotheca by James Tassie and Other Collections of Gem Impressions at the University of Göttingen -- CLAUDIA WAGNER AND GERTRUD SEIDMANN: A Munificent Gift: cast collections of gem impressions from the Sir Henry Wellcome Trust -- Casting Nations: The National Museum -- DIANE BILBEY AND MARJORIE TRUSTED: "The Question of Casts" - Collecting and Later Reassessment of the Cast Collections at South Kensington -- MALCOLM BAKER: The Reproductive Continuum: plaster casts, paper mosaics and photographs as complementary modes of reproduction in the nineteenth-century museum -- AXEL GAMPP: Plaster Casts and Postcards: the postcard edition of the Musée de Sculpture Comparée at Paris -- DANA STEHLIKOVÁ: More Valuable than Originals? The Plaster Cast Collection in the National Museum of Prague (1818-2008): its history and predecessors -- TOBIAS BURG: Building a Small Albertinum in Moscow: the correspondence between Georg Treu and Ivan Tsvetaev -- STEPHEN L. DYSON: Cast Coll.…

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Title
Plaster casts: Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present. Transformationen der Antike ; vol. 18.
Author
Frederiksen, Rune and Eckard Marchand (eds.):
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Berlin; New York (NY): Walter de Gruyter.
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2010
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Hardcover.
Language
English
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3110208563
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9783110208566
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1,553 grams
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Book 2 of 11: Transformationen der Antike
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