9:00

Registration

Opening lecture

Chair: Donna Kurtz (Beazley Archive, Oxford)

9:30

Classical sculpture and the Cast of the Aphrodisias Fisherman

R.R.R.Smith (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Casts and antiquity

9:50

Plaster Casts in Antiquity

Rune Frederiksen (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

10:10

The Baiae Casts and the Uniqueness of Roman Copies

Christa Landwehr (Freiburg)

10:30

Discussion

10:50

Break

The European nobility and plaster casts in the 16th to 18th centuries

Chair: Eckart Marchand (University of Reading)

11:10

Multiple Castings and the first princely collections of casts from the antique

Walter Cupperi (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

11:30

'...makinge of moldes for the walles...' the stuccoes of Nonsuch: materials, methods, and origins

Martin Biddle (University of Oxford)

11:50

The Duke of Richmond’s Gallery at Whitehall

John Kenworthy-Browne (London)

12:10

Under Winckelmann's Spell: Presence and Purpose of Italian Plaster Casts in 18th-Century German and Russian Collections

Christoph Frank (Università della Svizzera italiana, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio)

12:30

Discussion

12:50

Break

Production and distribution of casts

Chair: Valentin Kockel (Universität Augsburg)

14:00

Laocoon in Scandinavia – uses and workshops 1587 onwards

Jan Zahle (Copenhagen)

14:20

Moulded on the Best Originals of Rome - 18th Century Production of Plaster Casts of Antique Sculptures and their Trading in Germany

Charlotte Schreiter (Humboldt-Universtät zu Berlin)

14:40

A Lasting Connection: A history of mould making and casting within the British Museum

Michael Neilson (British Museum)

15:10

Discussion

15:30

Break

Academies and plaster casts

Chair: Malcolm Baker (University of Southern California)

16:00

Plaster Casts and Memory Technique: The Display of Cast Collections after the Antique in the French Academies of Paris and Rome (1658-1793)

Tomas Macsotay (University of Amsterdam)

16:20

The Collection of Plaster Casts of the Berlin Academy of Arts 1786-1820

Claudia Sedlarz (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

16:40

Art and Didactics in the Plaster Cast Collection of the Mexican Academy of San Carlos

Elizabeth Fuentes Rojas (Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico)

17:00

Discussion