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Description: | The Cast Gallery houses about 650 casts of Greek and Roman statuary mainly acquired before 1925 and comprising a 19th century core acquired as a teaching collection. There is a fine and representative collection of Greek sculpture, mainly marble and bronze, from the beginnings in the 7th century BC to the end of the Hellenistic period, also Roman copies. The earliest stone sculpture in Greece owing greatly to foreign models in the east and Egypt are casts of the principal types of Archaic free-standing figures, the kouroi and korai a series from the Athenian Acropolis), reliefs from Archaic buildings and cemeteries including sculpture from the Temple of Aphai. There are works of Scopas, Praxiteles and Lysippus from the 4th century and early Classical, 2nd quarter of 5th century, bronze originals and of Roman copies of works by Myron and later Polyclitus and principal figures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. Casts of original sculpture and slabs from the Parthenon including some from moulds made 200 years ago which show the relief in infinitely better condition than it is today. Examples of the Hellenistic style of the 3rd Ã-1st century are the famous Victory of Samothrace and Laocoon. Casts of Roman sculpture are not so representative, but there are important pieces.
In total the Cast Gallery holds 132,500 items including life size casts of all the major pieces of Greek and Roman sculpture, about 1000; impressions and classical gems and cameos, 100,000; archival casts of coins, 30,000 and about 1500 casts and electrotypes of antiquities including Byzantine ivories. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Beaumont Street
Oxford Oxfordshire,
OX1 2PH | FAX: | 01865 278018 | Telephone: | 01865 278000 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4201 | Go to resource |
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