Object name: Plaster cast / Object type: archaeology / Donor: Alfred Emerson - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-47, described as Cast of terminal figure of Pan with a child on his left shoulder, to whom he shows a fruit. Location: Vatican Museum

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-274, described as Cast of Plotina, wife of Trajan. Plotina died in 129. From a marble in the Vatican, Rome. Restored: nose, parts of ears, plait of hair, bust.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-121, described as Cast of Niobe and daughter, group of colossal proportions. From the marble in Florence. Found near St. John Lateran, Rome. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Threatened by the avenging shafts of Apollo and Artemis (Latin: Diana), mother and daughter have rushed together, and Niobe uses the last of her energy to save her youngest child. There is a better bust of Pentelic marble at Brocklesby Manor, England, Lord Garboraough’s seat. Fr. W. 1260. It was found, with many other marbles of the same composition, near St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1583. New: nose, parts of both lips and chin, left forearm and cloak, right hand and half of the right forearm, which was probably a little more lowered to show the girl’s head. New are the child’s curls, right arm, left hand, which rested lower against her mother’s dress, and the left foot. Cardinal Ferdinand de Medici, later Grand Duke of Tuscany, purchased the group of the Niobids when discovered. He placed it in his villa Medici on Mte. Pincio, Rome. The statues were taken to Florence in 1775 and were placed in the Galleria degli Uffizi in 1794.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-9, described as So-called “Sulla” portrait head of an unknown subject, also called “Pompey”. Original marble in Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Terracotta.” Remarks: “So the Manifattura di Signa. But its imperial busts may be after originals elsewhere.”

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-18, described as Cast of Niccolò da Uzzano, Florentine burgher, by Donatello, terracotta, with vestiges of coloring. Museo Nazionale (Bargello) Florence.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-58, described as Cast of The Themis of Rhamnous. By Chairestratos of Rhamnous. A sculpture, as its inscription indicates, of the first half of the III Century B.C. Pentelic marble.

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