The Collection of the Museo Nacional de Reproducciones Artísticas, now in the Museo Nacional de Escultura 1877–2021

Alberto Campano

doi:10.37558/gec.v23i1.1222

Alberto Campano Museo Nacional de Escultura https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4549-7420

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37558/gec.v23i1.1222

Keywords: Copy, Antiquity, Museum of Artistic Reproductions, National Museum of Sculpture, Collections of plaster casts

Abstract

This article provides an overview of the Museo Nacional de Reproducciones Artísticas (Spain) within a brief history of art replicas. After a brief mention of its historical and plastic foundations, centered on the ideas and artistic forms of Antiquity and its resurgence throughout the Modern Age, an account is given of its emergence throughout the 19th century. It was then when the Museo Nacional de Reproducciones Artísticas, whose trajectory is the central theme of this work, was created. After an initial boom from its foundation until the first decades of the 20th century, its long decline was followed by an equally long occultation, but it is currently re-emerging as part of the collection of the Museo Nacional de Escultura.

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Author Biography

Alberto Campano, Museo Nacional de Escultura

Alberto Campano Lorenzo, who holds a degree in Geography and History from the University of Valladolid, is a museum curator at the Museo Nacional de Escultura [National Sculpture Museum], where since 2012 he has been in charge of the Collection of Artistic Reproductions.
Within this last area, he has published studies on works from this collection, on the trajectory of the National Museum of Artistic Reproductions and about the history of the sculptural replica from Antiquity. He has curated several exhibitions focused on the world of copies, such as Electric Treasures, or others where reproductions have played an important role, such as The Museum as Divine Comedy.
His current lines of work are focused on the revision and updating of the pieces in the aforementioned collection and on researching the history of the Museo Nacional de Reproducciones Artísticas [National Museum of Artistic Reproductions], approached from the point of view of the great institutional milestones, but also attending to the “intrahistory” and trying to know the name and work a whole plethora of professionals from very different fields, almost anonymous, who made it possible to carry out the enormous task of collecting works carried out by the museum.

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