Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Wandering Italians; The fortunes of Brucciani's formatori; Chapter 2: Object Lessons; The context of the Schools of Design; Brucciani and the educational market; The contested classical in industrial education; Plaster casts as teaching objects; The Leeds School of Design: A case study; Chapter 3: Exhibitions Great and Small; Brucciani's Apollo Belvedere at the Great Exhibition of 1851; Brucciani's Greek Slave and the International Exhibition of 1862; Brucciani beyond London
The Galleria delle Belle ArtiExhibiting plasters in parks and gardens; Plaster casts and production of ceremonial space; Decorating the Alexandra Palace (twice); Chapter 4: Death Masks and Dance Halls; Posthumous plaster heads and hands; The places of plaster and the spaces of rational recreation; Chapter 5: Building Museum Collections of Plaster Casts; The British Museum; The South Kensington Museum; The National Portrait Gallery; The Natural History Museum; Plasters in 'provincial' museums: Leeds Art Gallery; Australasia; North America; Chapter 6: Casting Aside