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History
Purpose
Method
Brochure Outline
History:
Two
collections of plaster casts exist in the San Francisco Bay
Area. One collection came to the University of California
in the period 1902-1904 from museums in Europe by the gift
of Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Although there seem to have been
more than 300 pieces in that group originally, dozens of pieces
can no longer be accounted for. The second group, 27 in number,
was given to the City and Country of San Francisco in 1915
by the Greek State; these have now been given to the Classics
Department of UCB. Both collections have languished in warehouses
for at least 60 years unseen and unseeable to students and
the interested public. The casts were, until 2003, filthy and
often cracked or broken, in no condition for public viewing.
This situation can be contrasted with the situation with the
cast collections of, for example, Oxford, Cambridge, Copenhagen,
Moscow, Amsterdam, Erlangen, Halle-Wittenberg, Saskatchewan,
Atlanta, and Austin, Texas, to name a few (see bibliography). The situation began to change in the Spring of 2003 when 21 casts (7 from the Hearst collection, 21 from the Classics department) were repaired and restored. Since then they have been on display in Room 10 in the basement of the Marchant Building. {To top}
Purpose:
To expand and enrich the collection
now available to the community of the University of California at Berkeley as many of the plaster casts from the
Hearst Collection and from the Classics Collection as possible. {To
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Method:
1)
clean, repair, conserve, and mount for display all of the
Classics Collection (see inventory) and as many of the Hearst
Collection as time will allow. This work will be done under
the guidance of Elisabeth Cornu, Conservator of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco with the assistance of Tom Ventresco
and Nadina Reusmann.
2) prepare
a full inventory of each object including description, dimensions,
and bibliography. This under the guidance of Stephen Miller.
3) mount the
finished pieces in public areas of the campus, probably the
Art History/Classics Seminar and the northern entrance to
Doe Library.
4)
publish a booklet with the following elements:
a)
the history of the collections - how, when, whence
b)
a survey of the use of plaster casts in museums and
for
education
c)
a presentation of the technical aspects of creating
plaster casts
d)
a presentation of the technical aspects of conserving
plaster casts
e)
a fully illustrated catalogue of the pieces which have
been put on display
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Outline of brochure to
accompany exhibit:
4a) History of the Collections
Phoebe
Apperson Hearst Museum Archives
PAH - her motivation
correspondence & receipts of Alfred Emerson (Joan Knudsen)
Harold N. Fowler, obituary of Emerson, AJA
48 (1944) 80
transportation
expenses
when
and where on campus
Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco
documentation of gift from Greek State
publicity
at the time
when
and where on display and storage
transfer
to Classics Department
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4b) Plaster
Cast Collections
GENERAL
Bauer, J., and W. Geominy, Gips nicht mer. Abgusse als letze Zeuden antiker Kunst (Bonn 2000)
Beard, M., “Casts and
Cast-offs: the origins of the Museum of classical Archaeology,”
PCPhS 39 (1993) 1-29
Connor, P., "Cast-Collecting in the Nineteenth Century," in G.W. Clarke (ed.),
Rediscovering Hellenism (Cambridge 1989) 187-235
Caproni, P.P, Catalogue of plaster
reproductions from antique,
medieval
and modern sculpture : Subjects for art schools (1901)
Donati, Fulvia, La Gipsoteca
di Arte Antica (Florence 1999, University of
Pisa, Collection of the Department of Archaeological Science)
15-82
Haskell, F. and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture.
1500-1900 (New Haven and London1981)
Howard, S., “Ancient
Busts and the Cavaceppi and Albancini Casts,” Journal
of the History of Collections 3 (1991)
Jenkins, I., "Acquisition
and Supply of Casts of the Parthenon
sculptures by the British Museum, 1835-1939," ABSA
85 (1990)
89-114
Keisch, C., "Gipssammlungen
als 'ästhetischer Kramladen,'" in
Die
griechische Klassik: Idee oder Wirklichkeit (2002) 729-735
Kurtz, Donna, The Reception
of Classical Art in Britain: An Oxford Story of
Plaster Casts from the Antique (BAR 308, 2000)
Kurtz, Donna, Beazley Archive: Classical Sculpture: Paris Lecture
Le Moulage - Actes
du colloque international du 10-12 avril 1987,
edited by M. Bourbon (Paris 1988)
Witcombe, C.L.C.E., "Art
History and Technology"
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SPECIFIC COLLECTIONS
Canada
Saskatchewan
England
Cambridge: Guidebook to the Cast Gallery
Cambridge: The Peplos Kore
Oxford
Penny, N., “Chantey,
Westmacott and casts after the Antique,”
Journal of the History of Collection 3 (1991) 255-264
Denmark
Copenhagen
France
Deonna, W., Moulages
de l’art antique au Musée Rath (1922)
Germany
Friederichs, C., Die
Gipsabgüsse antiker Bildwerke (Berlin 1885)
Berlin
Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik Berlin
Platz-Horster, G.,
“Zur Geschichte der Sammlung von Gipsabgüssen
in
Berlin,” Berlin und die Antike (Berlin 1979) 93-8
Platz,
G., “Die Berliner Sammlung von Gipsabgüssen,”
Berlin und die Antike
(Berlin 1979) 273-292
Stemmer, K. (ed),
Berliner Gypse des 19. Jahrhunderers. Von der
Idee
zum Gipsabguß(1993)
Hettner, H., Das
Museum der Gipsabgüsse zu Dresden (Dresden
1881)
Erlangen
Fittschen,
K., Verzeichnis der Gipsabgüsse des Archäologischen
Instituts
der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1990)
Halle-Wittenberg
Holland
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam
Ireland
Cork, Ireland
University College,
Cork, Ireland
Italy
Bizzarri, A.R. Mandrioli,
and A.M. Brizzolara, Gipsoteca. La collezione
dei
gessi del Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna (1990)
Donati, Fulvia, La
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Florence 1999) University
of
Pisa, Collection of the Department of Archaeological Science
Grange, D., “Une
collection genevoise méconnue: les moulages
d’aprés
l’antique,” AK 35 (1992) 142-147
Russo, S., and R. Carozzi,
La Gipsoteca dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara
(Massa 1991)
Barbanera, M. Museo
dell’arte classica. Gipsoteca (Roma 1995)
[U.
Rome]
Gasparri, C., Il
Museo dei Gessi (Urbino 19900 [U. Urbino]
Russia
Moscow
Switzerland
Stähli,
A., Die Berner Abguss-Sammlung (Bern 1985)
U.S.A.
Wescoat, Bonna
D., Replicating History: A Guide to 19th-century plaster
casts
on view at the Michael C. Carlos Museum and in Marchael C.
Carlos
Hall, Emory University (Atlanta 1994)
University of Texas at Austin
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley Special News Release
Robinson, E.,
Catalogue of casts, part III, Greek and Roman Sculpture
(Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston 1896)
Emerson, A.,
Catalogue of the H.W. Sage collection of casts from
antique
sculpture (1900 Cornell)
Kuniholm, P.I., Nancy H. Ramage, and Andrew Ramage, A Guide to the Classical Collections of Cornell University (Ithaca 2003)
Kramer, C. and N.H. Ramage (eds.), Tradition and Innovation: Plaster and Page (Ithaca College 2003)
Harvard
U. Missouri, Columbia Department of Art History
U. Missouri, Columbia Casts
Haskell, Heather
R., “The Horace Smith Collection of Plaster Casts,”
Sculpture
Review 51 (2002) 14-17. (Springfield, MA)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (broken link)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (broken link)
Zambia
Natal
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4c)
The technical aspects of creating plaster casts
ANCIENT
Ladendorf, C.,
Die antiken Gipsabgüsse aud Baiae. Griechische
Bronzestatuen in Abgüssen
römischer Zeit (1985)
Landwehr, C.
von Hees, Capolavori greci in calchi romani. Il
rinvenimento di Baia e la tecnica degli antichi copisti
(Naples 1993)
Landwehr, C. von Hees, Griechische Meisterwerke in romischen Abgussen: Der Fund von Baia (Frankfurt, 1982)
Hallet, C., "Kopienkritik and the Works of Polykleitos," in W.G Moon(ed.), Polykleitos, the Doryphorous, and Tradition (Madison 1998)
http://www.cib.na.cnr.it/Castellodibaia/rbp.html
MODERN
Caproni, P.P., and Brother, Catalogue of Plaster Cast Reproductions (Boston, 1901)
Hallo,
R., “Bronzeabgüsse antiker Statuen,” JDAI
42 (1927) 200-206
Donati,
Fulvia, La Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Florence 1999)
109-142
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4d)Technical Aspects of Conserving and Exhibiting Plaster Casts
Ashley-Smith, J. (ed.) Science for Conservators. Teaching Series (The Crafts Council, London 1983)
Constantinides, M., Makris, N. and S.G. Miller, Seismic Response Analysis of Plaster Cast Sculptures on the University of California, Berkeley Campus (EERC Report no. 2003-07)
Cornu, E. and E. Thomas, Practical Seismic Protection Systems fo Sculptures at the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco (Berkeley 2002)
Guldbeck, P., The Carew of Antiquities and Historical Collections (Nashville 1972)
James, T., The Prop Builder's & Casting Handbook (Cincinnati 1989)
Knell, S. (ed.), Care of Collections (London & New York 1994)
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4e) Bibliography
for the originals
GENERAL
Richter,
G.M.A., The Sculpture and the Sculptors of the Greeks
(1970) NB90.R53 *E
Stewart, A. Greek
Sculpture (2 vols., 1990) NB980.S74 *E
Richter, G.M.A., Kouroi
(1970) NB94.R531 *E
Richter, G.M.A., Kourai: archaic Greek maidens (London 1968)
Richter, G.M.A., The
Portraits of the Greeks (1965) NB164 .R52 *308E
Ridgway, B.S., Hellenistic
Sculpture I: the Styles of ca. 331-200 B.C.
(1990) NB94.R535
Bieber, M., The
Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age (1961) NB90.B52 *E
Bieber, M., Ancient
Copies. Contribution to the History of Greek
and Roman Art (1977)
Kleiner, D.E.E., Roman
Sculpture (1992) NB115.K57
Strong, D.E., Roman
Imperial Sculpture (1961) NB115.S69
Toynbee, J.M.C., The
Hadrianic School (1934) NB115.T6
MUSEUM CATALOGUES
Athens - Akropolis
Humfry, P., Archaic
Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis (1936)
fNB87.A8 P3 *308E
Brouskari,
M. The Akropolis Museum (1974) NB87.A8 B7514 *308E
Brouskari, M., The Monuments of the Akropolis (1997) DF287.A2 B7613
Jenkins, Ian, The Parthenon Frieze (Austin 1994) NB91.A7 J45
Keesling, C.M., "The Kore as a Sculptural Type on the Athenian Akropolis," [Abstract] AJA 100 (1996) 367
Neils,
J., The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge 2001) NA2965.N45 *G
Paton, J.M., et alii, The Erechtheum (Cambridge, Mass 1927) NA283.E7 P3 *E
Karakasi, K., Archaic korai (Los Angeles 2003) NB94.K2813
Athens - National Museum
Karouzou,
S., EynikÒn ArxaiologikÒn
Mouse€on: SÊllogh Glupvēn
(Athens 1967)
Kavvadias,
P. Catalogue des Sculptures du Museée National d'Athènes (Athens 1890-1892)
Boston - Museum of Fine Arts
Caskey,
L.D., Catalogue of Greek and Roman Sculpture (Cambridge,
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Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Budde,
L., and R. Nicholls, A Catalogue of the Greek and Roman
Sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge 1964) NB87.C18
Copenhagen - Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Poulsen,
F., Catalogue of Ancient Sculpture in the Ny Carlsberg
Glyptotek
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Di
Pasquale, G., Uffizi: the Ancient Sculptures (Florence
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London - British Museum
Smith,
A.H., Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek
and
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Dawson,
A., Portrait sculpture: A Catalogue of the British Museum
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Munich
Vierneisel-Schlörb,
B., Glyptothek München. Katalog der Skulpturen II, Klassische Skulpturen des 5. und 4. Jahrhunders v. Chr.
(Munich
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collezioni del Museo Nazionale di Napoli (Archivio Fotografico
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M., Musée du Louvre, Les Sculptures grecques I
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C., Museo Barracco di Sculture Antica (Rome 1963)
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