Statuaria romana

Speranza

Copies of classical sculpture	1
	Ancient Roman copyists at Baiae	1
	Squarcione's casts for artists in 15th century Padua	2
2.	Early collections of classical sculpture in Italy	5
	Italian travellers in Greek lands	18
	'Antiquities Gardens'	18
	Engravings of classical sculpture	19
3.	The earliest collections of classical art in Britain	21
	Henry VIII and Nonsuch Palace	38
	William Camden, Robert Cotton and early academies	39
	Prince Henry's cabinet	40
	King Charles I and his court	41
	Arundel, Rubens, and Peiresc	41
	Castiglione's Il Libro del Cortegiano and Peacham's Compleat Gentleman	43
	Bodley's benefaction and Oxford's 'Picture Gallery'	45
	Evelyn and the Arundel Marbles	46
	Tradescant, Ashmole and the Ashmolean Museum	47
4.	Preparation for the Grand Tour	49
	Early guide books	49
	The Richardsons	50
5.	Sir Roger Newdigate (1719-1806) and his era	53
	The first Grand Tour 1738-1740	77
	The Tribuna of the Uffizi	78
	Buying casts from Cipriani in Florence 1739	79
	Arbury Hall and the Duchess of Pomfret	80
	The Pomfret Benefaction 1755	80
6.	Classical archaeology 1740-1774	85
7.	The second Grand Tour 1774-1775	103
	Buying casts from Traballese in Florence	117
	Displaying casts at Arbury Hall	117
	The Queen's College and Newdigate's Wild Boar	118
	The Radcliffe Library and 'Piranesi's Candlesticks'	118
	Newdigate's 'temple for classical art'	120
	The Newdigate Prize	121
8.	Continental cast collections before 1800	123
9.	British cast collections before 1800	127
10.	The early nineteenth century: an introduction	133
11.	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
14.	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