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Institutions like the Metropolitan Museum formed collections that included plaster replicas of architectural elements like the pediments of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, reliefs from the Parthenon and casts of Italian Renaissance art like Della Robbia's relief of a Virgin with saints. As times and tastes have changed, the Met has given hundreds of these casts to places like the Art Students League of New York, the National Taipei Teachers College and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. But the Met still has more casts on its hands than it wants, so it has decided to sell 177 of them at the York Avenue headquarters of Sotheby's on Feb. 28.