John Carey Author and critic visits the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, for Intelligent Life Magazine. Photographed by Brian Harris 2 December 2011. John Carey in the Cast Gallery. The Ashmolean’s cast gallery is one of the oldest, largest and best-preserved collections of casts of Greek and Roman sculpture in the UK. It contains some 900 plaster casts of statues, reliefs, and architectural sculptures. The collection is particularly strong in casts of Classical sculpture, but also has important Hellenistic and Roman material – Many of the historical casts, some dating back to the eighteenth
John Carey Author and critic visits the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, for Intelligent Life Magazine. Photographed by Brian Harris 2 December 2011. John Carey in the Cast Gallery. The Ashmolean’s cast gallery is one of the oldest, largest and best-preserved collections of casts of Greek and Roman sculpture in the UK. It contains some 900 plaster casts of statues, reliefs, and architectural sculptures. The collection is particularly strong in casts of Classical sculpture, but also has important Hellenistic and Roman material – Many of the historical casts, some dating back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are in better condition than the acid-rain-damaged originals from which they were moulded.
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