Casting Nations I

Chair: Jan Zahle (Copenhagen)

9:30

‘The Question of Casts’: Collecting and later reassessment of the cast collections at South Kensington

Diane Bilbey and Marjorie Trusted (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

9:50

The Reproductive Continuum: Plaster Casts, Photographs and Modes of Reproduction in the Nineteenth-Century Museum

Malcolm Baker (University of Southern California)

10:10

More Valuable than Originals: The plaster cast collection in the National Museum, Prague

Dana Stehlikova (The National Museum, Prague)

10:30

Discussion

10:50

Break

Casting Nations II

Chair: Marjorie Trusted (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

11.10

‘Building in Moscow a small Albertinum’ The correspondence between Georg Treu and Ivan Cvetaev

Tobias Burg (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden)

11:40

Ancient Plasters to American Shores: Cast Collecting and the Origins of American Classical Archaeology

Stephen L. Dyson (University at Buffalo)

12:00

Colonial Contexts: The Changing Meanings of the cast collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum

Ian Cooke (London)

12:20

The museum as a manifesto of taste and ideology: the 20th century plaster cast collection of archaeology and art at the University of Padua

Alessandra Menegazzi (Università degli Studi di Padova)

12:40

Discussion

13:00

Break

Display and future use of plaster casts

Chair: Rune Frederiksen (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

14:30

On the Constitution and Display of the Plaster Cast Collection of Montpellier University

Stephan Schmid (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III)

14:50

The Garden of Plaster Casts: a different view on Cast collections

Bernard van den Driessche (University Museum Louvain-la-Neuve; Association Internationale pour la Conservation et la Promotion des Moulages)

15.10

From the Apollo Belvedere and the Pantheon to early 19th century sculpture: Sir John Soane's casts as part of his Academy of Architecture' at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields (Sir John Soane's Museum)

Helen Dorey (Sir John Soane's Museum, London)

15.30

Casts in Contemporary Countryhouses

James Perkins (Aynhoe Park)

15:40

Plastercasts on the Internet

Donna C. Kurtz (Beazley Archive, Oxford)

15.45

Discussion

16:30

End of conference