Statuaria romana antica

Speranza

Copies of classical sculpture

Ancient Roman copyists at Baiae

Squarcione's casts for artists in 15th century Padova


Early collections of classical sculpture in Italia


Italian travellers in Greek lands

'Antiquities Gardens'

Engravings of classical sculpture


The earliest collections of classical art in ENGLAND Inghilterra

Henry VIII and Nonsuch Palace

William Camden, Robert Cotton and early academies

Prince Henry's cabinet

King Charles I and his court

Arundel, Rubens, and Peiresc

Castiglione's Il Libro del Cortegiano and Peacham's Compleat Gentleman

Bodley's benefaction and Oxford's 'Picture Gallery'

Evelyn and the Arundel Marbles

Tradescant, Ashmole and the Ashmolean Museum


Preparation for the Grand Tour

Early guide books

The Richardsons


Sir Roger Newdigate (1719-1806) and his era

The first Grand Tour 1738-1740

The Tribuna of the Uffizi

Buying casts from Cipriani in Florence 1739

Arbury Hall and the Duchess of Pomfret

The Pomfret Benefaction 1755

Classical archaeology 1740-1774

The second Grand Tour 1774-1775

Buying casts from Traballese in Florence
Displaying casts at Arbury Hall
The Queen's College and Newdigate's Wild Boar
The Radcliffe Library and 'Piranesi's Candlesticks'
Newdigate's 'temple for classical art'

The Newdigate Prize

Continental cast collections before 1800

British cast collections before 1800

The early nineteenth century: an introduction

The Duncan brothers, John Shute and Philip Bury 140
The Radcliffe Library and antique busts 149
Bodleian 'Picture Gallery', Henning's casts and Fouquets' models 150
Radcliffe Library and plaster casts from the antique 152
The Duncans as patrons of classical art 152

12.The University Galleries 1839-1845 155
Dr Francis Randolph and Sir Robert Taylor 171
Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) 172
Design of Taylor's Library 173
Design of the exhibition areas in the University Galleries 173
Cockerell's 'Great Niche' 174
Duncans' Muses 174

13.Sir Francis Chantrey 177
Lady Chantrey's benefaction 183
Chantrey as a collector of antique casts 184
Chantrey's casts from the antique 185

Museums in mid-nineteenth century Oxford 189
Burgon's Remarks on Art 194
Ruskin and the Drawing School 195
Charles Newton and his Oxford lectures 196

15.The Classical Museum 199

16.The Great Exhibition and the Cast Courts of the Crystal Palace 201

17.Museums in Oxford 1860-1884 205
The University Museum 205
The Ashmolean Museum and John Henry Parker 205
Parliamentary Commission of 1877 206
German museums and German scholarship 207
Walter Pater's lectures on Greek art 207

18.Cambridge 1870-1884 209

19.Benjamin Jowett's Vice-Chancellorship 1882-1886 211
Pelham and the Cast Committee 216
Casts ordered in 1884 217

20.Archaeological research in Europe before 1884 219

21.Archaeological research in Oxford before 1884 225

Part II

1.Introduction 231

2.Establishment of the Professorship 233
Lincoln College and Mark Pattison 233
Ancient History and Archaeology 233

3.Percy Gardner (1887-1925) 237
The Gardner brothers 255
Percy's Inaugural Lecture 255
Casts ordered 256
The Chantrey casts 258
The 'Sunk Court' and the apparatus 260
Casts on the move 260
The Evanses 263
Arthur Evans and Fortnum 263
University Galleries and Ashmolean Museum 1894 264
Casts ordered in 1894 265
The 'Sunk Court' and the Chantrey casts 268
Newton's books and the Archaeological Library 269
Warren and Marshall 271
Gardner's first decade 271
Portrait busts 272
Barracco's Museo di Scultura antica 275
Gardner, Richards and Beazley 275
Amalgamation of the collections 1908 277
Warren and Beazley 278
Hogarth's master plan 279
The Great War 1913-1918 280
Warren, Marshall and the 'Boston Throne' 280
Gardner's Guide to the casts 281
The Hope sale 282
Post-war 283
The Coin Room 284
Gardner's Progress in Classical Archaeology 285

4.John Davidson Beazley (1925-1956) 287
Early years at Oxford 291
Testimonials for the Professorship 291
Beazley and the casts 292
The 1930s 297
War and destruction of Duncan and Chantrey casts 298
Beazley's A Catalogue of Casts 299
Post-War 299
Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology 299
Planning for the future 300

5.Bernard Ashmole (1956-1961) 303
Early years and photography 307
London years, Inaugural Lecture Value of Casts 308
'Persuaded' to Oxford 308
The new Cast Gallery 308
Cleaning the casts 309

6.Martin Robertson (1961-1979) 311
Early years and Beazley 313
The University's purchase and Beazley's gift 314
Departure of the Ruskin School of Drawing 314

7.John Boardman (1979-1994) 317
Reader for Ashmole and Robertson 329
Artists and exhibitions in the Cast Gallery 329
The Baiae casts 330
Midas and Philip 330
Electronic documentation of the casts 331
Impressions of engraved gems and cameos 332
The Wellcome Benefaction 333

Chronological chart 341
Catalogue of casts, compiled by Florence Maskell 383
List of abbreviations
Bibliography
Index (general)
Index of persons
Index of museums