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casts. Dr Alilena Mein (University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, The Cast Gal-
lery) also gave a paper on the layout of another fine collection of casts, in Oxford.
University collections of plaster casts were also the subjects of the next two speakers,
Dr Elena Mango (Universität Zürich - Archäologische Sammlung) and Dr Hubert
Kowalski (institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw). Avery special collec-
tion of plaster casts all connected with one building - St Vitus' Cathedral in Prague
- was profiled in a joint paper given by Prof. Ivo Hlobil (Ustav dejin umenf av ćr
in Prague) and Dr Petr Chotebor, Arch. Eng. (Spräva Prażskeho hradu). The next
paper, from Prof. Steffi Roettgen (Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz - Max Planck
Institut), was focused on a single work, Lorenzo Ghiberti's Porta del Paradiso, and the
casts from it. The conference was brought to a close with two papers by the authors
of the exhibition in the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace. The present authors gave an out-
line of the history and character of plaster casts in the National Museum in Krakow,
while Anna Kłosowska and Michał Obarzanowski talked about the conservation
of the collection. Unfortunately, for reasons beyond our control we were unable
to publish three of the papers given in May 2010 in the present volume.
The National Museum in Krakow has undertaken something that in our region
is still a groundbreaking task: the presentation of a large collection of plaster casts
and models, the main body of which was made over a century ago. In the cata-
logue accompanying the exhibition we pointed out that at present we have reined
in our ambitions to summarising the state of research into this collection: preparing
the ground for fuller studies, and identifying areas of uncertainty and emerging issues.
The exhibition in the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace itself was conceived as a basis
for further study, of which the present conference materials are the first fruits.
Wojciech Marcinkowski, Tomasz Zaucha
9
lery) also gave a paper on the layout of another fine collection of casts, in Oxford.
University collections of plaster casts were also the subjects of the next two speakers,
Dr Elena Mango (Universität Zürich - Archäologische Sammlung) and Dr Hubert
Kowalski (institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw). Avery special collec-
tion of plaster casts all connected with one building - St Vitus' Cathedral in Prague
- was profiled in a joint paper given by Prof. Ivo Hlobil (Ustav dejin umenf av ćr
in Prague) and Dr Petr Chotebor, Arch. Eng. (Spräva Prażskeho hradu). The next
paper, from Prof. Steffi Roettgen (Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz - Max Planck
Institut), was focused on a single work, Lorenzo Ghiberti's Porta del Paradiso, and the
casts from it. The conference was brought to a close with two papers by the authors
of the exhibition in the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace. The present authors gave an out-
line of the history and character of plaster casts in the National Museum in Krakow,
while Anna Kłosowska and Michał Obarzanowski talked about the conservation
of the collection. Unfortunately, for reasons beyond our control we were unable
to publish three of the papers given in May 2010 in the present volume.
The National Museum in Krakow has undertaken something that in our region
is still a groundbreaking task: the presentation of a large collection of plaster casts
and models, the main body of which was made over a century ago. In the cata-
logue accompanying the exhibition we pointed out that at present we have reined
in our ambitions to summarising the state of research into this collection: preparing
the ground for fuller studies, and identifying areas of uncertainty and emerging issues.
The exhibition in the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace itself was conceived as a basis
for further study, of which the present conference materials are the first fruits.
Wojciech Marcinkowski, Tomasz Zaucha
9