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Casting a new light : plaster casts and cast collections in Europe and beyond / edited by Miriam Szőcs and Márton Tóth.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Budapest : Museum of Fine Arts, 2024.Description: 178 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9786156595232
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Contents:
"The best laid schemes...": the politics of the universal museum and the vicissitudes of their plaster cast collections at the turn of the twentieth century / Eckart Marchand
The Colleoni Monument and the Medici Tombs: monumental Renaissance casts in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest / Miriam Szőcs
From northern Italy to Hungary: Medieval and Renaissance monumental casts from the Museo Campi Carlo in Milan to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest / Flavia Berizzi
Generation and regeneration of the cast collections of the Musée de Sculpture Comparée, Paris / Jean-Marc Hofman
The ways of the casts: plaster casts of antiquities in Budapest and Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania) / Géza Andó and Eszter Süvegh
A brief history of the plaster cast collection of the Department of Graphics, Form, and Design at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics / Eszter Hajós-Baku and Beáta Szűts
Nineteenth-century constructions and monument reconstructions in Hungary in the context of educational plaster cast collections: a case study with special focus on the Romaneque Hall of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest / Júlia Katona
The role of ancient plaster casts in ancient art: the written evidence / Rune Frederiksen
Appreciation and rejection: plaster casts in the discourse of copy and original; with an excursus on the Sleeping Ariadne in the Berlin cast collection / Lorenz Winkler-Horaček
The making and meaning of plaster casts in the nineteenth-century: their future in the twenty-first century / Marjorie (Holly) Trusted
Summary: The conference was organised in celebration of the refurbishment of the plaster cast collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, and its exhibition in the Star Fortress in Komárom, opened in the autumn of 2021, and in the visible storage in the newly built National Museum Conservation and Storage Centre in Budapest, the installation of which was finished in 2022. Featuring a collection of papers, including several case studies, the volume delves into various aspects of collecting and showcasing plaster casts, an important phenomenon that shaped European and American art museums from the nineteenth century onwards. It explores international connections and influences in the establishment of cast collections while also shedding new light on the role and uses of plaster casts in the antiquity and in the era of historicism. Moreover, the volume offers valuable reflections on the intricate contexts of the contemporary reception of these collections, presenting new perspectives on their significance and future.
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Published on the occasion of the international conference 'Plaster Casts & Cast Collections across Europe: History and Future', held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest on 24 May 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The best laid schemes...": the politics of the universal museum and the vicissitudes of their plaster cast collections at the turn of the twentieth century / Eckart Marchand

The Colleoni Monument and the Medici Tombs: monumental Renaissance casts in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest / Miriam Szőcs

From northern Italy to Hungary: Medieval and Renaissance monumental casts from the Museo Campi Carlo in Milan to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest / Flavia Berizzi

Generation and regeneration of the cast collections of the Musée de Sculpture Comparée, Paris / Jean-Marc Hofman

The ways of the casts: plaster casts of antiquities in Budapest and Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania) / Géza Andó and Eszter Süvegh

A brief history of the plaster cast collection of the Department of Graphics, Form, and Design at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics / Eszter Hajós-Baku and Beáta Szűts

Nineteenth-century constructions and monument reconstructions in Hungary in the context of educational plaster cast collections: a case study with special focus on the Romaneque Hall of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest / Júlia Katona

The role of ancient plaster casts in ancient art: the written evidence / Rune Frederiksen

Appreciation and rejection: plaster casts in the discourse of copy and original; with an excursus on the Sleeping Ariadne in the Berlin cast collection / Lorenz Winkler-Horaček

The making and meaning of plaster casts in the nineteenth-century: their future in the twenty-first century / Marjorie (Holly) Trusted

The conference was organised in celebration of the refurbishment of the plaster cast collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, and its exhibition in the Star Fortress in Komárom, opened in the autumn of 2021, and in the visible storage in the newly built National Museum Conservation and Storage Centre in Budapest, the installation of which was finished in 2022. Featuring a collection of papers, including several case studies, the volume delves into various aspects of collecting and showcasing plaster casts, an important phenomenon that shaped European and American art museums from the nineteenth century onwards. It explores international connections and influences in the establishment of cast collections while also shedding new light on the role and uses of plaster casts in the antiquity and in the era of historicism. Moreover, the volume offers valuable reflections on the intricate contexts of the contemporary reception of these collections, presenting new perspectives on their significance and future.