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La Gipsoteca del Dipartimento Culture e Società e il valore didattico delle raccolte di calchi in gesso di scultura antica
2020
The recent opening of the Plaster Cast Collection of the Department Cultures and Societies at the University of Palermo, after a long recovery and restoration work, is the starting point for some considerations about today’s possibilities of use of the academic plaster cast galleries of ancient sculpture. These collections, since their origin devoted to serve as a help for teaching the history of ancient art, and above all the Greek sculpture, are still worthy of interest. First of all they attest an important moment of the scientific history of the subject. But they can be also useful for the present study of ancient art, on condition that we are always aware of the functional and decontex…
Senso e prospettive di un incontro
2020
Nella postfazione si evidenzia l'importanza di valorizzare le collezioni universitarie sia per i loro numerosi elementi di interesse, sia per gli input che forniscono per ulteriori iniziative e progressi di conoscenza, secondo le parole d'ordine di "fare rete" e "sistematizzare" i vari asset, specializzazioni, conoscenza e utenti In the afterword the importance of enhancing university collections is highlighted both for their numerous elements of interest, and for the inputs they provide for further initiatives and knowledge progress, according to the watchwords of "networking" and "systematizing" the various assets , specialisms, knowledge and users
Introduzione
2020
Introduction to the volume "Una memoria fragile? Collezioni di calchi in gesso e il loro ruolo di eredità storica tra passato e presente / Fragile Erinnerung? Sammlungen von Gipsabgüsse als historisches Erbe in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart" (Leipzig 2020)
Il vandalismo sui gessi
2020
The article reads the vandalism against plaster casts in the context of a general misfortune of this educational medium. The author explores the question of the extent to which the movement Arte Povera has paved the way for the recovery of historical plaster cast collections.
Una memoria fragile? Collezioni di calchi in gesso e il loro ruolo di eredità storica tra passato e presente
2020
A collection of papers about the recovery and the new arrangement of the plaster casts of ancient sculpture at the University of Palermo in Italy and the University of Leipzig in Germany