Antiquity in plaster : production, reception and destruction of plaster copies from the Athenian Agora to Felix Meritis in Amsterdam

Thesis

Title pages

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1: Moulding and casting techniques in Classical antiquity

2: Hellenism and the Roman taste for Greek art : changing art concepts

3: Classical art in medieval collections : Damnatio and Interpretatio christiana

4: Renaissance collections : a shift in attitude towards the physical remains of antiquity

5: The exemplary function of antique art forms during 17th-century classicism

6: Museums and French spoils of war : the atelier de moulages and new concepts of the imitation of the antique in the 18th- and 19th-centuries

7: An inquiry into the plaster collection of the learned society Felix Meritis in Amsterdam (1777-1889)

8: Plaster collections in defiance of modernism

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Bibliography (modern)

Bibliography of Classical authors including Church-Fathers and post patristic authors

Index nominum

Index rerum

Texts to the illustrations

Biography of the author

Nederlandse samenvatting

Illustrations