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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 21-111, described as Cast of head of a Venus (Greek: Aphrodite). From a marble in Palazzo Caetani, Rome. A cast of it was procured by Professor F. Von Duhn of Heidelberg, on the occasion of the owner’s permission to separate head and foot for the purpose of reading the Greek inscription underneath. The center of is was found missing. Donna Esilia Lovatelli, author of numerous able essays on archaeological subjects, is a scion of this princely house. Accession marks: BT 1292, R+T 1595 (variant) entered under last not bonded, duty paid $1.20.
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-192, described as Cast of winner of a race in armor, otherwise described as a combatant charioteer, and as Amphiaraos. From a celebrated bronze of the Tux Cabinet in Tubingen. Style of the 5th Century, B. C. Compare Kalkmaun in Jahrbruh des Archaeologiischen Instituts.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-246.5, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-147, described as Cast of Etruscan Goddess From a bronze in the Berlin Antiquarium with an inscription. Compare Mincali, Monumenti Plate 33.
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-127, described as Cast of seated boar. From a marble. Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-116, described as Cast of Grüttner’s model of the W pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia. After the mutilated, but numerically complete, original marbles of Olympia. Berlin Museum of Casts. There are 21 heroic figures in each gable. The central one of each reaches colossal proportions. There was a lost, continuous plinth under the feet of the statues. There are consequently no statue tracks like those of Parthenon and “Theseum” pediments. The statues are all of Parian marble except the old women of the W gable. They are restoration made necessary by the fall of cornice blocks. Ernst Curtins contended that the old women of Pentelic stone were the interpolation of a later age. He simplifies the composition to the 19 figures by omitting them, and the E pediment, also, to the 19 figures by omitting the detached fourth horses of both quadrigas. But crowding, not sparse grouping, is the rule of Greek pictorial and semipictorial compositions. With a suitable coloring, its excess disappears. From his miniature restoration, based on suggestions of Professor Treu, since revised and modified by Treu. The model was prepared for the Olympia exhibit in the Berlin Camposanto. After the original marbles found at Olympia.
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-195, described as Cast of bearded head of an Olympic victor in the boxing match. From a bronze found at Olympia in 187. National Museum, Athens. Compare Olympia IV, PlateII. Friederichs-Wolters 323, III Century B.C. On permanent exhibit in Morrison Library since opening of room, February, 1928.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-196, described as Cast of Archaic Reliefs. Subjects: three eagles regardant; two griffins, a winged Artemis (Latin: Diana) with carnivora in her hands; Herakles shoots a centaur. Two of these subjects occur in Pausanias' description of the chest of Kypselos, a work probably of the VIII Century B.C., and they are all redolent of a primitive Greek art tinged with Orientalism. From a bronze plaque found at Olympia in 187. The original may have been one side of a bronze base. National Museum, Athens.
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-112, described as Cast of head of a bearded man, victor in boxing match at Olympia, portrait. It lacks only an olive wreath, which Gerber has restored, and the inserted eyes he imitates. From a bronze found at Olympia, Greece. National Museum, Athens. This is one of the most realistic Greek portraits we have. A work, it is believed, of the 3rd Century B. C., School of Lysippos.

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