Modern Sculpture in the Making: Antonio Canova and plaster casts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Antiquity
5. Plaster Casts in Antiquity 11
6. The Baiae Casts and the Uniqueness of Roman Copies 35
7. The Renaissance
8. Plaster and Plaster Casts in Renaissance Italy 47
9. “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 81
10. “Makinge of moldes for the walles” – The Stuccoes of Nonsuch: materials, methods and origins 99
11. Making and Distribution from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
12. “Moulded from the best originals of Rome” – Eighteenth-Century Production and Trade of Plaster Casts after Antique Sculpture in Germany 119
13. Laocoön in Scandinavia – Uses and Workshops 1587 onwards 143
14. How the Smiths Made a Living 163
15. Artists’ Academies
16. Plaster Casts and Memory Technique: Nicolas Vleughels’ display of cast collections after the antique in the French Academy in Rome (1725–1793) 179
17. Incorporating Antiquity – The Berlin Academy of Arts’ Plaster Cast Collection from 1786 until 1815: acquisition, use and interpretation 197
18. Art and Pedagogy in the Plaster Cast Collection of the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City 229
19. Artists’ Workshops
20. Picturing the Use, Collecting and Display of Plaster Casts in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Artists’ Studios in Antwerp and Brussels 249
21. Modern Sculpture in the Making: Antonio Canova and plaster casts 269
22. Chantrey and the Original Models 289
23. Live Body Moulding and Maternal Devotion in Marcello’s Studio 307
24. Shattering the Mould: Medardo Rosso and the poetics of plaster 319
25. “Impressionism Solidified” – Umberto Boccioni’s Works in Plaster and the Definition of Modernity in Sculpture 331
26. Outside In: the after-life of the plaster cast in contemporary culture 351
27. Inside Out: a process for production 359
28. Conservation
29. The Plaster Decoration of the Choir Screens in the Church of Our Lady in Halberstadt: a current conservation project 367
30. The Restoration of Two Plaster Casts Acquired by Velázquez in the Seventeenth Century: the Hercules and Flora Farnese 385
31. The Contribution of Plaster Sculptures and Casts to Successful Conservation Interventions at the National Gallery of Greece, Athens 403
32. Architectural Models and Collections after Gems
33. Plaster Models and Plaster Casts of Classical Architecture and its Decoration 417
34. A Dactyliotheca by James Tassie and Other Collections of Gem Impressions at the University of Göttingen 435
35. A Munificent Gift: cast collections of gem impressions from the Sir Henry Wellcome Trust 451
36. Casting Nations: The National Museum
37. “The Question of Casts” – Collecting and Later Reassessment of the Cast Collections at South Kensington 463
38. The Reproductive Continuum: plaster casts, paper mosaics and photographs as complementary modes of reproduction in the nineteenth-century museum 485
39. Plaster Casts and Postcards: the postcard edition of the Musée de Sculpture Comparée at Paris 501
40. More Valuable than Originals? The Plaster Cast Collection in the National Museum of Prague (1818–2008): its history and predecessors 519
41. Building a Small Albertinum in Moscow: the correspondence between Georg Treu and Ivan Tsvetaev 539
42. Cast Collecting in the United States 557
43. Colonial Contexts: the changing meanings of the cast collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum 577
44. Display and the Future of Plaster Casts
45. Sir John Soane’s Casts as Part of his Academy of Architecture at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 595
46. The Museum as a Manifesto of Taste and Ideology: the twentieth-century plaster cast collection of archaeology and art at the University of Padua 611
47. Living with Plaster Casts 627
48. Le jardin des plâtres: un autre regard sur les collections de moulages 635
49. Backmatter 651