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Modern Art
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Cast no.64
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Torso of Gordon Ross. <br />Plaster original. <br />Incised on top of neck: "Gordon Ross/19 years old/cast from life/1938." <br />H 23 in. <br />Not in Metropolitan cast catalogue. <br />Long-term loan. <br />Cast Location: Robinson B359 hallway<br /><br />This physically fit male torso, from the neck to below the navel, arms only to the upper biceps, was cast from life. Notwithstanding the inscription, nothing is known about Gordon Ross or the mold-maker. In keeping with traditional practices, his body may have been used as an "ideal" male form for teaching purposes. <br /><br />The process of casting from life has a long history as an art form. Florentine painter Cennino Cennini (c. 1370-1440) wrote a handbook for artists in 1400. The sections on making casts from life give a good sense of the concerns. Noting particularly the model's social status, the materials used, and the methods, the section entitled "How to Take a Life Mask" reads "If you wish to have a face of a man or woman, of any rank, adopt this method. Get the young man or woman, or an old man, though you can hardly do the beard or hair, but have the beard shaved off. Take rose-scented, perfumed oil, anoint the face with a good-sized minever brush." <br /><br />Then Cennini describes the method of winding bandages around the head and other preparations, followed by instructions for making breathing tubes of brass or silver. In the midst of explaining how to apply the plaster, he reminds the reader thus: "And bear in mind that if this person whom you are casting is very important, as in the case of lords, kings, popes, emperors, you mix this plaster with tepid rose water; and for other people, any tepid spring or well or river water is good enough." In order to "Make a Cast of Your Own Person," the reader must first have the plaster prepared, then "have it spread out on a good broad table, such as a dining table. Have in placed on the ground; have this plaster or clay spread out on it a foot deep. Fling yourself on it, on whichever side you wish, front or back or side. And if this plaster or clay takes you well, get yourself pulled out of it neatly, pulling yourself out straight, so as not to shift it in any direction." <br /><br />Then the same must be done to the opposite side of the body, before a worker joins the two halves together and casts the whole in lead or another metal. Today's methods have greatly increased the comfort-level of the model. Making a life cast now involves spreading a coat of petroleum jelly on the model's body, thicker in the armpit and pubic areas, followed by a coat of dental alginate (a stabilizer) with the consistency of yoghurt. "When dry, the Alginate is very rubbery requiring a support shell, or 'mother'mold." Plaster-coated cloth bandages are applied over the area to be cast and removed after they have set. "At this stage the mold is held tightly against the skin by a vacuum. One must slip a hand around the edges to break the seal. The cast should then pop off. The entire modeling time is about 45 minutes. <br /><br />Gone is the need for repeated efforts should the model happen to fling himself into the plaster crookedly! Modern methods are relatively easy and uneventful, but from the evidence of body hair on the inside of our cast, the method used by our model did not benefit from alginate, though the flinging was probably eliminated.<br /><br />~Ellen McV. Layman<br /><br /><br /><br />
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<strong>Bibliography<br /><br /></strong>See ArtMolds Sculpture Studio LLC, http://www.artmolds.com/gateway/technique/example.htm. Life-Casting.com "Creating a Torso Mold" 1998-2001; Cennino Cennini. The Craftsman's Handbook, trans. and ed. Daniel V. Thompson Jr. NY: Dover, 1954, p. 91, after Cennino Cennini, Il Libre dell'Arte, Milan, 1890 ed., Section 14.
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Cast no.63
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Head of Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BCE). <br />Purchase. <br />Italian marble. <br />Italian, ca. 1800. <br />London, British Museum. <br />H 14 in. <br />Metropolitan Catalogue: Cast no. 965.<br />Cast Location: Robinson B359 hallway<br /><br /> Thin hair combed forwards to cover his balding head, Julius Caesar's gaunt face and incised pupils give him a forceful presence and a commanding gaze. Since the Renaissance, Julius Caesar has held a powerful, yet controversial, fascination in western culture. Could Rome’s Republican government have withstood its internal political crises had Caesar not destroyed it? Or was the Republic in its death throes and was it only his seizure of control that assured Rome’s survival and opened the way for empire? Shakespeare portrayed Caesar as driven by personal ambition. Classical biographers were ambivalent, Suetonius highlighting his faults and virtues, and Plutarch focusing more on his courage and nobility. <br /><br />The head typifies the traditional view of Caesar as resolute, courageous, and noble—the visionary founder of Rome as Empire. The British Museum purchased the head in 1818 from James Millingen, an English collector of antiquities. The head was said to have been discovered in Alexandria, but he had found it in Rome. It became one of the museum’s most prized and well-known classical Roman portraits. For more than a century reproductions, drawings, and photographs of the bust found their way into museums, private collections, and art books. (Its picture may still be seen on the Tufts University Perseus webpage for Julius Caesar.) <br /><br />Skepticism over the bust’s origins began to surface in the 1890s when Adolf Furtwängler, a leading classical archaeologist, expressed doubts that the work was an authentic classical Roman bust. Nonetheless, the British Museum’s 1904 catalogue on classical sculpture, while noting Furtwängler’s reservations, maintained that the head was original. After all, Caesar’s hair was combed to the front, a device which Suetonius reported to have been adopted by Caesar when his baldness became an object of ridicule. The catalogue further stated that Caesar’s eyes were strongly marked. That observation should have caused hesitation since Roman marble sculpture did not show an incised iris or pupil until the time of the emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138). <br /><br />The 1928 museum catalogue, again noting that some critics had doubts, confirmed it to be a genuine Roman bust of Caesar of ‘the falcon eyes’ (Dante, Inferno, IV, 123), ‘the consummate soldier, statesman, and man of letters.’ By 1953, the museum had accepted the inevitable. The head was unceremoniously moved from the Roman galleries and placed at the entrance to the museum’s reading room. What then of its origins? In 1960, the classical art historian Gilbert Bagnani called it a great piece of the Italian Renaissance. After a thorough examination, the Oxford classicist Bernard Ashmole concluded that it had been made about 1800, with the damage to the nose artificially caused by a nail-studded piece of wood or some other means of abrasion. <br /><br />One expert has stated that the sculptor of the head may have borrowed features from a large statue of Caesar on Rome's Capitoline Hill and from a bust acquired by Pope Clement XIV for the Vatican in 1771. It might be said that this head of Caesar symbolized a traditional view of classical Rome’s empire and leadership which nineteenth-century England linked to a vision of its own imperial destiny. By the mid twentieth century, that vision was gone, and it was time for the demise of the head’s pedigree and its removal to the reading room.<br /><br />- Bill Pierce<br /><br /><br />
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<strong>Bibliography<br /><br /></strong>See Gilbert Bagnani, "On Fakes and Forgeries," Phoenix XIV, 4 (Winter, 1960), 228-244; Otto Kurz, Fakes (New York, 1967); Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic: Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero: Six Lives, trans. Rex Warner (Harmondsworth, 1972); Jeffrey Spier, "Blinded with Science: The Abuse of Science in the Detection of False Antiquities," The Burlington Magazine, CXXXII, 1050. (Sept., 1990), 623-631; Sepp Schüller, Forgers, Dealers, Experts: Strange Chapters in the History of Art (New York, 1960); A. H. Smith, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (London, 1904), vol. III, no. 1870, p. 146, pl. XIII; Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves (New York, 1989); Henry Beauchamp Walters, A Guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum, 6th ed (London, 1928).
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Islamic Art
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Cast no.62b
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One of two decorative flat panels. <br />From Cairo, Qa'it Bay mosque. <br />Stone. <br />1468-1496 CE. <br />Cairo, Mosque in the mausoleum complex of Qa'it Bay. <br />Each panel ca. 36 x 48 in. <br />Metropolitan Catalogue: Cast no. 1622(?). <br /><br /><br />Qa'it Bay was a Mamluk ruler whose legacy included an architectural complex containing a religious college (madrasah) and his tomb. Both exterior and interior surfaces of the structures are highly decorative, including tiles, colored marbles, floral architectural sculpture, and relief carving. The symmetrical floral lattice-like patterns on these two relief panels are reminiscent of textiles, manuscripts, and woodwork.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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<strong>Bibliography<br /><br /></strong> See Barbara Brend, Islamic Art (Cambridge, MA, 1991).
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One of two decorative flat panels. <br />From Cairo, Qa'it Bay mosque. <br />Stone. <br />1468-1496 CE. <br />Cairo, Mosque in the mausoleum complex of Qa'it Bay. <br />Each panel ca. 36 x 48 in. <br />Metropolitan Catalogue Casts no. 1622(?). <br /><br />Qa'it Bay was a Mamluk ruler whose legacy included an architectural complex containing a religious college (madrasah) and his tomb. Both exterior and interior surfaces of the structures are highly decorative, including tiles, colored marbles, floral architectural sculpture, and relief carving. The symmetrical floral lattice-like patterns on these two relief panels are reminiscent of textiles, manuscripts, and woodwork.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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<strong>Bibliography<br /><br /></strong>See Barbara Brend, Islamic Art (Cambridge, MA, 1991).
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South Asian Art
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Cast no.61
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Large head of Buddha.<br /> Findspot unknown. <br />Stone. <br />Gandhara (Modern Pakistan)<br />Second to third centuries CE. <br />Location unknown. <br />H 23 1/2 in., W 26 1/2 in., D 17 1/2 in. <br />Not in Metropolitan cast catalogue. <br />Cast Location: SUB I 2nd floor<br /><br />The Buddha is the central figure in the various sects of the Buddhist religion. He can be recognized by the ushnisha, a protuberance atop his head which symbolizes his great intelligence and wisdom, by the urna, a tuft of hair in the center of his forehead which is said to radiate his intense inner light to the world, and by his elongated earlobes, which symbolize his renunciation of wealth and worldly items. <br /><br />The Gandharan style of Buddhist sculpture was influenced by trade on the Silk Road that passed through this northern region of India. Those carrying goods along the road also brought examples of Greco-Roman styles in art, which influenced the style of this region. The influence is evident in the Buddha’s classical wavy hair that is quite different from the tight and simplified curls of other Indian styles.<br /><br />~Nathan Barber
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Enlightenment of the Buddha gable relief. <br />Findspot unknown. <br />Gray schist relief. <br />Ghandara (modern Pakistan)<br /> ca. first to third century CE. <br />Lahore Museum, Pakistan <br />H 24 in., W 26 in. <br />Not in Metropolitan cast catalogue. <br />Cast Location: Krasnow Bldg<br /><br />The false stupa gable is a Gandharan decorative sculpture-type belonging to a Buddhist shrine. This example, dated between the first and third centuries AD, has three narrative registers flanked by two devotional figures. In the lower register, the Enlightened Buddha delivers his first sermon: he is seated; his gesture is that of teaching; the bodhi tree spreads over him; and the wheel of the law is on the platform beneath him. <br /><br />The top register depicts the veneration of the Buddha’s bowl. Incised lines on the enshrined bowl suggest the bowl with multiple rims known from one story of its origins. In this version, each of the four Lokapalas, or directional guardians, presents the Buddha with a bowl. Not wanting to choose between the gifts, the Buddha fuses the bowls into one with four rims (Kuwayama). Worshippers and a pair of icthyocentaurs venerate the bowl at the center, resting on a curtained pedestal (Ingholt). Reports by Chinese monks Faxien and Xuanzang suggest that the Buddha’s bowl was enshrined in Gandhara. <br /><br />No other Buddhist art has images of the bowl, indicating that its representation and veneration are restricted to Gandharan art. The middle register is more problematic: rows of worshippers flank the only clearly identifiable figures: the standing Buddha in the center and to his left Vajrapani, the Buddha’s club-wielding guardian in Gandhara. One of the two large devotional figures at the sides is haloed, the other is not: their identity remains a mystery. The style of the relief is quintessentially Gandharan. Once dubbed Greco-Buddhist, scholars emphasized the Greek influences on the style and saw Greek art as the impetus behind the first iconic representations of the Buddha. Shifting understandings now focus on the blending of Indian, Greek, and Persian styles inherited from the various polities that controlled the region. Unified in the Gandharan style, they spread along the Silk Roads with Buddhism itself. <br /><br />Elements of Hellenistic influence in the Gandharan style include the “straight, sharply chiseled nose and brow, classical lips and wavy hair” of the Buddha. Other Mediterranean influence appears in his “diaphanous, toga-like robe” (Hopkirk, 23). These elements spread to the East and back into greater India where they were again transformed. The original sculpture is in the Lahore Museum, Pakistan. It may have been acquired by way of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 1802, the Punjab government had casts of 24 schist sculptures manufactured for the V&A (V&A accession numbers 3308-1883; 3380-1803; 3206-1883; and 3307-1883) (Errington).<br /><br />~ Anne Brennan Hardy<br /><br /><br /><br />
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<strong>Bibliography<br /><br /></strong>See Kurt Behrendt, Buddhist Architecture of Gandhara (Leiden, 2003); Elizabeth Errington, “Site Provenance of Gandharan Sculpture,” in Taddei ed., South Asia Archaeology Conference (PLACE, 1987); Peter Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road (Amherst, 1980); Harold Ingholt, Gandharan Art in Pakistan (New York, 1957); Shosin Kuwayama, “The Buddha’s Bowl in Gandhara and Relevant Problems,” in Taddei ed., South Asia Archaeology Conference (Place, 1987).
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Relief of the Buddha. <br />Findspot unknown. <br />Grey schist. <br />Ghandara (modern Pakistan)<br />ca. first to third-century CE. <br />Location unknown. <br />9 1/2 x 16 in. <br />Not in Metropolitan cast catalogue. <br />Cast Location: Robinson B359 hallway<br /><br />The lower register of this two-register relief panel may show a narrative depicting the brothers Jaya and Vaijaya watching their parents place offerings in the Buddha’s bowl. <br /><br />Attempting to emulate their charitable behavior, the young boys offer him some of the dust with which they have been playing. Impressed by their behavior, the Buddha predicts that Jaya will be reborn as the future king Asoka, Buddhist ruler of North India in the 3rd century BCE, and his Brothers as Asoka’s chief vassal Radhagupta. Several devotees accompany the Buddha including Vajrapani, a Gandharan version of the Greek hero Herakles, who is often shown guarding the Buddha in Gandharan sculpture. In the upper register, the seated Buddha is seated on a lotus throne flanked by royal or divine devotees. The two men closest to him are seated in a pose associated with kingship and may represent the kingly reincarnations of the two boys in the bottom register. However, this representation would be highly unusual.<br /><br />~Anne Brennan Hardy
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Medieval and Renaissance Art
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Trumpeters. <br />Part of a relief by Luca Della Robbia. <br />In the Duomo (Cathedral) of Florence. <br />Resin. <br />1431-1438. <br />Florence, Duomo, choir loft. <br />H 42 in., W 39 in. <br />Gift to George Mason University from an anonymous donor. <br />Cast Location: College Hall ground floor<br /><br />The choir loft or cantoria for the Duomo in Florence is the earliest known work by the sculptor Luca della Robbia. This cantoria was never intended to hold a choir, but was designed by Della Robbia as an organ loft for the Chapel of St. Zenobius, the patron saint of Florence. A second loft was designed by Donatello. Both of them are now in the Museum of the Opere del Duomo. Luca della Robbia designed eleven carved panels depicting Psalm 150. The panel reproduced in this cast shows children in celebration. Three boys at the left play trumpets - traditionally associated with festivals - and two of them wear laurel wreaths, suggesting that they have won prizes for music. Four little girls dancing beneath the trumpets may be derived from classical representations of maenads or bacchants and would have been recognized as such during the fifteenth century. On the right, three more boys holding recorders watch the others.<br /><br />~Ashley Simpson
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Large ceiling coffer. <br />Jever Palace, Lower Saxony, Germany. <br />Oak. <br />1566. <br />Jever Palace. <br />H 78 in., W 75 in., D 17 in. <br />Metropolitan Catalogue: Cast no. 2127. <br />Purchased for GMU at Sotheby's New York, February 28, 2006. <br />Cast Location: Johnson Ctr ground floor<br /><br />This panel of a cassetted ceiling (large coffer) is decorated with delicate ornaments ranging from leafy vines to whimsical creatures.<br />
<p><br />~Stephanie LaSpada</p>
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Mino da Fiesole, part of an altarpiece with Madonna, Saints Leonard and Remigius, Christ, John the Baptist, and a beggar. <br />Fiesole, Cathedral <br />Marble. <br />1466 CE. <br />53 x 53 in. <br />Metropolitan Catalogue: Cast no. 2347. <br />Cast Location: Johnson Ctr 2nd floor<br /><br />The marble altarpiece, carved by Mino da FIesole, was completed in 1466, and was installed on the left wall of the funerary shrine of Bishop Leonardo Salutati, opposite his sarcophagus. The bishop’s namesake St. Leonard stands at the left, beside the Virgin and the Infant Jesus. A young John the Baptist, who foretold the coming of Christ, kneels at the left, and a beggar is seated at the right, looking up towards a saint, either St. Martin or St. Remigius. The Latin inscription beneath the figures, as translated by Daniel Hall, reads: “Leonardo de Salutatis, Bishop, Learned and experienced in the Law.”<br /><br />~Raphael M. Sikorra