Yesterday I went to see an exhibition of work by my favourite artist. He’s an Italian sculptor who lived 600 years ago and his name is Donatello. Like the turtle. Although art historians aren’t supposed to say this sort of thing, I think he was the greatest artist who ever lived, in any medium, any …
This is a story about casts. Plaster of Paris replicas of sculpture. And it is a story about three cast collections. It's also a story that involves a certain amount of straight talking about a gentleman’s unmentionables. You have been warned. Now, the cast gallery at the Ashmolean is one of the most interesting places …