103 items Panel 1
Clockwise from bottom left
The Royal Academy of Arts (after Johann Zoffany), 1773
Mezzotint
Richard Earlom
Lent by The Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Royal Academicians (after Zoffany, from a slide), 2000
Pencil on board
Naomi Salaman
Rhetoric of the Image (from slide), 2000
Pencil on painted paper
Image from Roland Barthe’s ‘Rhetoric of the Image’ in Image Music Text
London: Fontana Press, 1977
Naomi Salaman
Digital scan from Old Mistresses, 2003
Griselda Pollock & Rosika Parker, Old Mistresses – Women, Art & Ideology
London: RKP, 1981
The image of The Royal Academicians is reproduced from a photograph
Digital scan from Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, 2003
Linda Nochlin, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ in Art & Sexual Politics Thomas B. Hess & Elizabeth C. Baker (eds), New York: Collier Books, 1973
The image of The Royal Academicians is reproduced from a photograph
Digital scan from Academies of Art Past and Present, 2003
Nikolaus Pevsner, Academies of Art Past and Present, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1940
The image of The Royal Academicians is reproduced from a mezzotint
Digital scan from John Zoffany, RA, His Life and Works, 2003
Lady Victoria Manners, George Williamson, John Zoffany, RA His Life and Works,
London, New York: John Lane, 1920
Image reproduced from an engraved key to the painting The Royal Academicians published in 1794
Hand-held slide viewer
35mm colour slide of The Royal Academicians, 2003
Johan Zoffany, The Royal Academicians, Oil on Canvas, 1772
The Royal Collection © 2010 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Box A
References
Nikolaus Pevsner, Academies of Art Past and Present
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940
Griselda Pollock & Rosika Parker, Old Mistresses – Women, Art & Ideology
London: RKP, 1981
Thomas B. Hess & Elizabeth C. Baker (eds), Art & Sexual Politics: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, New York: Collier Books, 1973
Juliet Mitchell, Psychoanalysis and Feminism, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975
Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text, essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath, London: Fontana Press, 1977
A.L. Rees & Frances Borzello (eds.), The New Art History, London: Camden Press, 1986
Victor Burgin, Thinking Photography, London: Macmillan, 1982
Panel 2
From left
Copying and Restoration, St Petersburg, winter 2003
Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
c-type print bonded to glass
Hémicycle d’honneur, Paris, winter 2004
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
c-type print bonded to glass
Coldstream Room, London, summer 2001
(previously the life painting studio of Professor Sir William Coldstream)
Slade School of Fine Art
c-type print bonded to glass
Case B/C
Curved Space of Observation
From left
Drawing of a life class at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, 19th-century
Digital copy
Royal Danish Academy of Art Library
Copenhagen, summer 2003
Amphithéâtre de morphologie, view from above
Digital copy
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Paris, winter 2004
Ecole de dessin – floor plan and section
Digital scan of a photocopy
Illustration from Diderot & d'Alembert, Encyclopédie, 2nd ed. 1786
Kunst & Wunderkammer, The Anatomical Theatre, Leiden
Digital scan of a photocopy
Engraving by Willem Swanenburgh (1570 – 1615)
Statesville Penitentiary, USA
Digital scan from illustration in Michael Foucault’s Discipline and Punish:
The Birth of the Prison, 1975 (trans.1977)
Class drawing from Cast
Digital copy
Royal Danish Academy of Art Library
Copenhagen, summer 2003
Anatomical theatre, Padua, 1537
Digital print from Wellcome Institute website
Drawing of a proposal for an Art Academy, Verona
Copied from 19th century poster for Verona Art Academy
Drawing by Alexandra Pompei, c.1760
Archive of Museo Castel Vecchio
Verona, autumn 2002
The Old Operating Theatre, view towards seating
Digital print
London Bridge, summer 2005
Royal Academy Life Room, model’s view towards seating
Digital print
Royal Academy Schools
London, 2004
Anatomy Theatre, Repin State Academic Institute of Painting,
Sculpture and Architecture, view towards seating
Digital print
St Petersburg, winter 2003
Giovanni Fattori in the Life Room, c.1880
Digital copy of a photograph from book
Accademia di Belle Arte Firenze, Library
Florence, winter 2004
Panel 3
Top from left
Life Room, London spring 2004
Royal Academy Schools
c-type print bonded to glass
Hdk; Zeicht Raum D 157, Berlin, early summer 2003
Universitåt de Künste de Berlin
c-type print bonded to glass
Amphithéâtre de morphologie, Paris, winter 2004
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
c-type print bonded to glass
Life painting studio, Glasgow, early summer 2001
Glasgow School of Art
c-type print bonded to glass
Bottom from left
Salle de dessin, Paris, autumn 2004
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
c-type print bonded to glass
La Scuola Libera del Nudo (Life drawing room), Roma, winter 2004
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
c-type print bonded to glass
La Salla del Nudo, Verona, autumn 2002
Accademia Cignaroli Verona
c-type print bonded to glass
La salla del Nudo, Firenze, winter 2004
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
c-type print bonded to glass
Case D/E
Fragments from the Life Room
Life Drawing Studio (detail)
Sculpture Department
Glasgow School of Art, early summer 2001
c-type
Life Room (detail)
Accademia Cignaroli Verona, autumn 2002
c-type print
La Scuola Libera del Nudo (detail)
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, winter 2004
Digital print
Scuola Del Nudo (now Professor Cannali’s studio)
With full size replica of the Florence Baptistery's Cathedral's Doors by Lorenzo Ghiberti
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, winter 2004
c-type print
Artistic Anatomy
Accademia di Belli Arti Venezia, summer 2001
c-type print
Slade Life Painting Studio (detail)
Slade School of Fine Art, London, summer 2001
c-type print
Slade Life Painting Studio (detail)
Slade School of Fine Art, London, summer 2001
c-type print
Sculpture Department
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, winter 2004
c-type print
Life Room (detail)
Glasgow School of Art, early summer 2001
c-type
Cabinet of Drawings from the Cast and Model
Royal Danish Academy of Art Library, summer 2003
Digital print
Box F
Copying in the Academy
Top from left
Academy Museum, student copying painting by
Riabushin (1887), (detail)
Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
St Petersburg, winter 2003
Digital print
Copying and Restoration, (detail)
Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
St Petersburg, winter 2003
c-type print
Life Modelling Studio
Sculpture Department
Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
St Petersburg, winter 2003
c-type print
Clay modelling of female nude in Venus pose, c.1902
Anonymous photograph
Universitåt de Künste de Berlin Archive, early summer 2003
Digital copy
Academy Museum, student copying painting by
Riabushin (1887)
Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
St Petersburg, winter 2003
Digital print
Drawing a Portrait of Bearded Man
Anonymous photograph
Universitåt de Künste de Berlin Archive, early summer 2003
Digital copy
Painting a Historical Portrait from Life
Anonymous photograph
Universitåt de Künste de Berlin Archive, early summer 2003
Digital copy
Modelling Male Bas Relief from Life
Anonymous photograph
Universitåt de Künste de Berlin Archive, early summer 2003
Digital copy
Panel 4
From left
Life School, Royal Academy, 1885
Etching
Charles West Cope
Lent by The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy, (Somerset House), 1808
Etching, aquatint and watercolour
Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin
Lent by The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Life Painting Studio, Berlin, early summer 2003
Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee
c-type print
Life Painting Studio, Edinburgh, spring 2001
Edinburgh College of Art
c-type print
Life Room, France, summer 2002
École supérieure des arts Aix-en-Provence
c-type print
Life Painting Studio, Oxford, early summer 2001
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
c-type print
Case G
The Academic Life Class
From left
Clay modelling of male nude, c.1902
Anonymous photograph
Universitåt de Künste de Berlin Archive, early summer 2003
Digital copy
Painting from the Male Nude, 19th-century
Anonymous photograph
Royal Danish Academy of Art Library, Copenhagen, summer 2003
Digital copy
Formerly Attributed to William Hogarth of the St. Martin’s Lane Academy (1735)
now known to be a 19th-century fake
Royal Academy of Arts, London, winter 2002
Black & white digital copy
‘Life Class of the Royal Academy’ F C Cowper, 1902
© The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Photograph from The Works of Sir F A Eaton
Ecole de Déssin - floor plan and section, and drawing of the curriculum
Digital scan of a photocopy
Illustration from Diderot & d'Alembert, Encyclopédie, 2nd ed. 1786
Illustration of the academy curriculum in Art Academies Past and Present,
cropped from Encyclopédie
Nikolaus Pevsner, Academies of Art Past and Present, Cambridge University press, 1940
Digital copy
Académie de Peinture, Definition from Encyclopédie
Diderot & d'Alembert, Encyclopédie, 2nd ed. 1786
Inkjet print with pencil
Henry Tonks’ Easel
The Vienna Academy (after Martin Ferdinand Quadal), 1790
Mezzotint
Johann Jacobé
UCL Art Collections EPC 8078
Box H
Transition to Female Model
The Women’s Life Class, c.1879
Oil on cardboard, Alice Barbara Stephens
© Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Photograph
A Life Class in the ‘Slade’ Room, 1881
Slade School of Fine Art was the first British art school to admit women as
students and give them access to the life room
J.R. Brown, ‘The Graphic, 26 February 1881
UCL Art Collections EPC 8679
Colour scan
Slade Life room (previously the Women’s Life Room)
Closed December 2008
Slade School of Fine Art
London, summer 2001
c-type print
The Royal Academy Life Room, 1953
Photograph
Russell Westwood
© Popperfoto/Getty Images
Sleeping Hermaphrodite
Copy of a Roman copy, unearthed early 1600
In a display curated by architects, Alexander H Damsbo
and Henrik Ingelman Nielsen, Thorvaldsen Museum
Copenhagen, summer 2004
Digital print
Hand-held Slide Viewer
Miss World Contest, c.1970
35mm slide of found photograph
Panel 5
From left
The Antique School at New Somerset House, c. 1780
Pen and ink with watercolour wash on laid paper
Edward Francis Burney
Lent by The Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Hall of Casts at the Royal Academy, c.1765
Hand-coloured line engraving
Thomas Hosner Shepherd
Lent by The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Palais des études (cast hall), Paris, winter 2004
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
c-type print
Figuresalen (Cast hall), Copenhagen, summer 2003
Royal Danish Academy of Art
c-type print
Architecture Department, Firenze, 2004
University of Firenze
(previously l’ Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze)
c-type print
Case I
Copying From Casts
Top from left
Students Drawing in the British Museum,
just after the drawing ban in the museum had been lifted
Digital copy from a book of stereo photograph by Roger Fenton c. 1860
Corridor with Casts at the Royal Academy, c.1980
Digital copy of a photograph, 2002
The Royal Academy Collection
Corridor with Casts at Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
Bologna, winter 2002
Digital print from colour negative
Children Drawing the Medici Venus, Orangerie Karlsaue, Kassel
Germany, autumn 2002
Digital print from colour negative
Drawing from casts at the Universitåt de Künste de Berlin, c.1902
Anonymous photograph
Universitåt de Künste de Berlin Archive, early summer 2003
Digital copy
Students in the Cast Hall of the Palais des études, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Photograph by Laure Albin-Guillot c.1930
Photocopy from D'après l'antique: Paris, Musée du Louvre, 16 October 2000 -15 January 2001. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, c2000
Bottom from left
Drawing Studio, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
Napoli, winter 2004
Digital print from colour negative
Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight, 1769
Reproduction in The Oxford Art Journal 18:1, 1995 of a mezzotint by William Pether after Joseph Wright of Derby
Photocopy
La Salle des Antiques a Charlottenborg
Reproduction in an exhibition catalogue of a painting by Knud Andreassen Baade,
mid 19th-century
Photocopy from D'après l'antique: Paris, Musée du Louvre, 16 October 2000 -15 January 2001. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, c. 2000
The Sculpture Gallery of an 18th-cenutry London Aristocrat
Painting by Johann Zoffany, Charles Towneley in His Sculpture Gallery (1782)
Photocopy from D'après l'antique: Paris, Musée du Louvre, 16 October 2000 -15 January 2001. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, c. 2000
Gates to the Palais des études, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Digital print
Paris, winter 2004
Gates to the Palais des études, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Digital print
Paris, winter 2004
Child drawing from the Antique, Orangerie Karlsaue, Kassel
Germany, autumn 2002
Digital print from colour negative
Life Class at the Académie royale, Paris, with Natoire as an Instructor
Watercolour, black chalk on paper by Charles Joseph Natoire, 1746
Photocopy from D'après l'antique: Paris, Musée du Louvre, 16 October 2000 -15 January 2001. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, c2000
Box J
Laocoöns
Top from left
Cast of the Laocoön Group
Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbon, summer 2003
Digital print from colour negative
Cast of the Laocoön Group
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Roma, winter 2004
Digital print
Cast of the Laocoön Group
From the Royal Danish Academy of Art
now housed at Royal Cast Collection
Copenhagen, summer 2004
Digital print
Cast of the Laocoön Group
Architecture Department, University of Firenze,
previously l’ Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
Firenze, winter 2004
Digital print
Bottom from left
Cast of the Laocoön Group (Head)
Sculpture Studio
Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
St Petersburg, winter 2003
c-type print
Cast of the Laocoön Group
Royal Academy Schools
London 2004
c-type print
Cast of the Laocoön Group
Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
Napoli, winter 2004
c-type print
Cast of the Laocoön Group (Head)
Sculpture Studio
Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
St Petersburg, winter 2003
c-type print
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