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Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2210 Speedway mailcode C3400, Austin TX 78712-1378 USA, Tel +1 512 471 5742 Fax +1 512 471 4111 E-mail ulf.hansson@austin.utexas.edu
Ulf R. Hansson
Swedish Institute in Rome, Director, Faculty Member
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Etruscology, Cabinets of Curiosities, Engraved gems, Cultural History, German Idealism, Classical Archaeology, and 99 moreGlyptics, History of Collecting, Classical Reception Studies, European intellectual history, German Studies, Etruscan Archaeology, Winckelmann, Cultural Studies, Classics, Archaeology, Art History, Adolf Furtwängler, Museum Studies, Collecting and Collections, Nachleben, Reception Studies, Biography, Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, History of Antiquarianism, Antiquarianism, Dactyliothecae, History of Collections, Etruscan studies, Etruscan and Greek jewellery, Archaeological Method & Theory, History of Classical Archaeology, Etruscheria, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Intellectual History, Philipp von Stosch, Collection, Pierres Gravées, Ancient and Post-Classical Glyptic, Cameos, Intaglios, Gemme Incise, Patronage and collecting, Ancient jewellery, Roman Jewellery, History of antiquities collecting, Museology, History of Archaeology, Museum Collection history, Greek and Roman Art- Plaster Casts, Plaster Casts, Gipsabgüsse, Neoclassical Gems, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Winckelmann Aesthetics History of Archaeology, Gem Casts, Christian Dehn, Reception of Antiquity, comte de Caylus, Pierre-Jean Mariette, German History, German Romanticism, 19th-century German philosophy, Art History, Jewellery History, Jewellery History, Jewellery Granulation, Etruscologia, Etruscan, Etruscan and pre-Roman archaeology, Etruscan and Roman Italy, Archaeology of Latium, Art Market, Fine art, art market, art auction, Cross-cultural transfers, History of Art Markets, Forgery, Fakery, Fraud, Art Economics and Markets, History of Art, Auctions, Grand Tour, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Deism, History of Scholarship, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Anton Maria Zanetti, Prosper Marchand, Bernard Picart, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Libertinage Érudit, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Libertinage, Libertinism, Eighteenth Century Libertinism, Eighteenth Century Radical Enlightenment, Radical Enlightenment, Pierre Crozat, Homosociability, Critical studies on men and masculinities, Queer Studies, Queer Theory, Queer Theory and Queer Studies, Gender Studies, and Social and Cultural History edit
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I’m a classical archaeologist, art and cultural historian, interested in pre- and early Roman archaeology, the histor... moreI’m a classical archaeologist, art and cultural historian, interested in pre- and early Roman archaeology, the history of scholarship, knowledge and cultural transfer in antiquarianism and archaeology, history of collecting and collections, and popular reception of ancient art and culture. I am Director of the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and a Research Fellow in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin.
An authority on Greek, Roman, and especially Etruscan engraved gems, I’m the author of the chapter on engraved gems in Routledge's Etruscan World, ed. J. MacIntosh Turfa (2013). My PhD diss. (Gothenburg 2005) was on late Etruscan and Italic engraved gems. A much expanded version with an updated Gesamtkatalog covering the glyptic production in central Italy from the archaic to the early Roman period is in preparation. I have also published extensively on the history of gem scholarship and collecting (for example on Stosch, Winckelmann, and Furtwängler), and on the interesting cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae (gem cast cabinets), which played an instrumental role in the reception of ancient art and mythology in early modern Europe. I'm moreover interested in archaeological revivalist jewellery, especially so-called "Etruscanising" works, by the Castellani, Giuliano, Melillo and other 19th-century workshops. A book chapter on 18th- and 19th-century popular reception of Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery was recently published in An Etruscan Affair (ed. J. Swaddling, British Museum Press)
My research interests in ancient material and visual culture also include Greek and Roman sculpture in both its original ancient and post-classical contexts, especially problems of context, iconography, meaning and reception.
I've recently completed a major study on the wide scholarly contribution of the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) sponsored by the Swedish Research Council (under publication). In connection with this project I organised the international conference "Classical Archaeology in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1870-1900" (Rome 2013, also under publication). I was also involved for a number of years as an admin of HARN, Histories of Archaeology Research Network, and has organised a number of conferences, workshops and sessions on the history of archaeology.
My ongoing research is focused mostly on antiquarian networks in early modern Europe and on the study and reception of Roman material and visual culture in 17th- and early 18th-century Italy. I currently am finishing a book on the antiquarian and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) and am also writing a book on proto-archaeology in early 18th-century Rome.
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German Studies, Classical Archaeology, Nationalism, History of Scholarship, Reception of Antiquity, and 15 moreHistory of Archaeology, Engraved gems, Greek Sculpture, Adolf Furtwängler, Meisterforschung, Olympia Excavations, Mycenaean pottery, Greek and Roman Sculpture, 19th Century studies, Kopienkritik, History of Classical Archaeology, Ancient Engraved Gems, Munich School, postivism, and kunstarchäologie
This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Roman Campagna in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Special focus is on developments during the early decades of the eighteenth... more
This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Roman Campagna in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Special focus is on developments during the early decades of the eighteenth century which culminated in the high profile «proto-archaeological» excavations of imperial palaces on the Palatine, of tombs and columbaria along the via Appia, and of villas in the Campagna and other projects. Many of these latter projects were carried out in the 1720s. Although modern judgment of such early field investigations has been mostly negative, historians of antiquarianism and ar¬chaeology have recently recognised the pioneering work that was in fact at times being done here by some of the excavators, sponsors, artists and scholars involved. Especially the visual documentation of archaeological contexts and finds has at¬tracted much interest lately for its relative precision and detail. Rather than focus on these already well-known excavations alone, the aim of this holistic study is to trace and analyse contextually the strategic positioning and interaction of a number of so-called «instrumental actors», both within the local antiquarian community and among its Italian and foreign correspondents, and to emphasise the collective aspects of knowledge production; to look at significant shifts in the approaches to and use of material and visual culture, as exemplified by collecting and collections, visual and textual documentation, correspondence and publications. Among the actors operating in these dynamic clusters in Rome and within larger networks can be mentioned Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729), Francesco de’ Ficoroni (1664-1747), Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755), Gaetano Piccini (active 1702-1740), Filippo Antonio Gualterio (1660-1728), Alessandro Gregorio Capponi (1683-1746), Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), Melchior de Polignac (1661-1742) and Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), but the list is long. The project will result in a monograph.
Research Interests:
History of Scholarship, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Antiquarianism, History of Collections (Archaeology), History of Archaeology, and 14 moreHistory of Antiquarianism, History of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Classical Tradition, Philipp von Stosch, Grand Tour, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, History of Classical Archaeology, Francesco Bianchini, Grand Tour Studies, Francesco Ficoroni, 18th Century Grand Tour, Alessandro Albani, and Rome in 18th Century
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Collecting and Collections, Art Market, Engraved gems, History of Collecting, Patronage and collecting, and 28 moreBook Collectors, Antiquities Market, Eighteenth Century Studies, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Book Collections, Grand Tour, Book Collecting, Patronage, Fine art, art market, art auction, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, The Grand Tour, eighteenth century art, Grand Tour, Rome, History of Art Markets, Horace Mann, Grand Tour Studies, Pierre Crozat, Neoclassical Gems, 18th Century Grand Tour, Ancient Engraved Gems, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, Eighteenth-century Rome, History of Grand Tours, Alessandro Albani, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Papal Art and Cultural Politics in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, History of book collecting, and early modern art market
This study is a much expanded and updated version of my PhD dissertation (Gothenburg 2005) which concerned the late Etrusco-Italic glyptic production, especially the so-called a globolo and related scarab gems. The new comprehensive study... more
This study is a much expanded and updated version of my PhD dissertation (Gothenburg 2005) which concerned the late Etrusco-Italic glyptic production, especially the so-called
a globolo and related scarab gems. The new comprehensive study traces and examines the production and use(s) of engraved gems and seal stones in Central and Southern Italy from the early circulation of imported works, the establishment of immigrant (East Greek) engravers in Etruria and the South, and the development of local workshops in the second half of the sixth century BCE, down to the end of the Etruscan, Italic and South Italian production and the establishment of Roman Republican production centres. The holistic study includes an extensive survey of find contexts and other available archaeological data plus new typological and iconographical analyses. The appended list of items in the surviving corpus of gems in public, corporate and private collections updates and adds about 55% new material to earlier Gesamtkatalogen, notably those of Zazoff (1968), Martini (1971), Krauskopf (1995) and Giovanelli (2015).
a globolo and related scarab gems. The new comprehensive study traces and examines the production and use(s) of engraved gems and seal stones in Central and Southern Italy from the early circulation of imported works, the establishment of immigrant (East Greek) engravers in Etruria and the South, and the development of local workshops in the second half of the sixth century BCE, down to the end of the Etruscan, Italic and South Italian production and the establishment of Roman Republican production centres. The holistic study includes an extensive survey of find contexts and other available archaeological data plus new typological and iconographical analyses. The appended list of items in the surviving corpus of gems in public, corporate and private collections updates and adds about 55% new material to earlier Gesamtkatalogen, notably those of Zazoff (1968), Martini (1971), Krauskopf (1995) and Giovanelli (2015).
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Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy, Etruscan Archaeology, Romanization, Engraved gems, Archaic Italy, and 29 moreGreek, Etruscan and Roman Art and Archaeology, Gems, Peter Zazoff, Wolfram Martini, Pre-Roman Italy, Gemstones provenance in antiquity, Etruscan and pre-Roman archaeology, Archaeology (Etruscology and Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy), Etruscan and Greek jewellery, Symbolism in Etruscan Art, Ingrid Krauskopf, research on Gemstones, diamonds and gem materials, Greek Gems and Fingerrings, Etruscan gems, Etruria and Ancient Italy, Sphragistic, Ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman Glyptics, Greek Gems, LIMC, Pre-Roman Gems, Limc Herakles, Etruscan Art, Southern Etruria, Ancient Engraved Gems, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, Etruscan engraved gems, Italic engraved gems, Master of the Boston Dionysos, and Etrusco-Italic gems
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History of Collections, Glyptics, Engraved gems, History of Collecting, Adolf Furtwängler, and 12 moreDactyliothecae, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, James Tassie, Dactyliothèques, Gem Casts, Neoclassical Gems, Ancient Engraved Gems, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, and Collections of Gems
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Archaeology, Gemology, Iconography, Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy, Etruscan Archaeology, and 13 moreGlyptics, Engraved gems, Ancient Seals and Sealings, Etruscology, Etruscan studies, Gems, Gemmology and Microscopy, Gemmological Instruments, Pre-Roman Italy, Etruscan and pre-Roman archaeology, Archaeology (Etruscology and Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy), Etruscologia, Etruscan gems, and Scarabs Seals
The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed within the context of negotiation, cooperation and exchange, as the collaborative effort of groups,... more
The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed within the context of negotiation, cooperation and exchange, as the collaborative effort of groups, clusters and communities of scholars. Shifting focus from the individual scholar to the wider social contexts of her work, this volume investigates the importance of informal networks and conversation in the creation of knowledge about the past, and takes a closer look at the dynamic interaction and exchange that takes place between individuals, groups and clusters of scholars in the wider social settings of scientific work. Various aspects of and mechanisms at work behind the interaction and exchange that takes place between the individual scholar and her community, and the creative processes that such encounters trigger, are critically examined in eleven chapters which draw on a wide spectrum of examples from Europe and North America: from early modern antiquarians to archaeological societies and practitioners at work during the formative years of the modern archaeological disciplines and more recent examples from the twentieth century. The individual chapters engage with theoretical approaches to scientific creativity, knowledge production and interaction such as sociology and geographies of science, and actor-network theory (ANT) in their examination of individual–collective interplay. The book caters to readers both from within and outside the archaeological disciplines; primarily intended for researchers, teachers and students in archaeology, anthropology, classics and the history of science, it will also be of interest to the general reader.
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Actor Network Theory, History of Archaeological Praxis, History of Scholarship, Bruno Latour, Actor Network Theory (ANT), and 8 moreActor-Network-Theory, History of Archaeology, History of Archaeological Research, Ludwik Fleck, actor-network theory, Latour, Deleuze, History of Archaeological Thought, History of Classical Archaeology, and Fleck
This collection of papers reflects the primary purpose of the Histories of Archaeology Research Network (HARN) – to demonstrate that there are many histories of archaeology rather than one overarching masculist narrative. HARN encourages... more
This collection of papers reflects the primary purpose of the Histories of Archaeology Research Network (HARN) – to demonstrate that there are many histories of archaeology rather than one overarching masculist narrative. HARN encourages historians and archaeologists to examine the discipline of archaeology in various ways. Each method can explain a missing piece of a complex history of science. Therefore the collection presented for publication demonstrates the wide range of the history of the discipline of archaeology, both chronologically and geographically, and the exciting potential for analysis, narrative, and debate. The arguments presented here encompass several distinct but interconnecting themes, all presented by members of HARN. Bucolo and Dixon examine the history of archaeology in Roman institutions. Barber, Wickstead, and Lewis deal with seemingly disparate histories—aerial archaeology, barrow excavation, social networks, and inaugural lectures. However, the histories of archaeology are just that, different methods of doing history of a particular scientific practice. Barnes and Aricanli and Snead analyze the history of archaeology in the Americas. These articles discuss the social and disciplinary implications of actual archaeological practice. There are, again, many ways to consider disparate field practices within our framework. Finally, Siapkas focuses on craniometry and how measuring skulls can be extremely political and aid in institutional racism. The special collection has been edited by Ulf Hansson, Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard and Jonathan Trigg.
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Queer Studies, Self and Identity, Italian Studies, Queer Theory, Inquisition, and 15 moreHistory of Freemasonry, Antiquarianism, Book trade History, Self-Fashioning, History of Collecting, Eighteenth Century Radical Enlightenment, Self; Social Construction, Transition and Reinvention Of, Eighteenth Century Studies, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Deism, Self Representation, Construction of Self Identity, Radical Enlightenment, and Queer Theory and Queer Studies
This book chapter discusses the substantial library holdings of the German collector, connoisseur and diplomat of sorts, Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757). Described as a key toehold for the Radical Enlightenment in Italy, the famous... more
This book chapter discusses the substantial library holdings of the German collector, connoisseur and diplomat of sorts, Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757). Described as a key toehold for the Radical Enlightenment in Italy, the famous Bibliotheca Stoschiana attracted considerable interest not only from antiquarian and letterati communities in Rome and Florence, where Stosch was active from the early 1720s until his death in 1757, but also from the Inquisition for its large holdings of controversial books and titles listed in the pope’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Stosch was involved in the establishment of the first and short-lived masonic lodge in Florence in 1733. He and especially his library figured prominently in the interrogation and trial documents of the Inquisition in relation to the shutdown of the lodge following the papal bulla of 1738 and the imprisonment of its secretary, Tommaso Crudeli (1702-1745). A native of Küstrin in Brandenburg, Stosch had studied theology and had travelled widely in Northern Eu¬rope and Italy in his youth. Over the years he managed to build a wide and considerable network of highly useful contacts which included royalty and popes, statesmen, cardinals and notable members of the Republic of Letters. During long sojourns in The Hague and London in the 1710s, Stosch, a deist and freethinker, became involved with the Chevaliers de Jubilation and moved the circles of John Toland and the ‘radical Huguenot côterie’, i e the artist Bernard Picart and the bibliographers Prosper Marchand and Charles Levier. He kept in contact with these circles after settling permanently in Rome in 1722, and built a considerable collection of books on theology and philosophy, taking a special interest in Spinoza. Most famous as a connoisseur and antiquary however, Stosch had established himself in learned circles with a book on engraved gems signed by ancient engravers, illustrated and published in Amsterdam in 1724 by Picart. This interest was sparked during a visit to Paris in 1712, when he met and befriended Montfaucon, Baudelot de Dairval, Anselmo Banduri, Jean-Paul Bignon, Pierre Crozat and others. Stosch was an avid collector of many things, coins, gems, antiquities, paintings, drawings and prints, maps, erotica, arms and armour, and naturalia—areas that were all reflected in his rich library which was already considerable before he settled in Italy. This first library remained in the Netherlands until 1739, when Stosch sent for it. He was then residing in voluntary exile in Florence, as a nightly assault on his carriage in January 1731 had made him leave Rome. In Florence, the Bibliotheca Stoschiana became an intersecting point for various overlapping European networks. The holdings were continuously expanded with the help of contacts and booksellers in Italy and the North such as Marchand, Levier, Caspar Fritch, Pieter Boudewijnsz van der Aa, Bernardo Paperini, Giuseppe Rigacci and Antonio Ristori. The chapter discusses the contents of the library, its significance for learned circles in Rome and Florence, its sale and dispersion after Stosch’s death, as well as its afterlife and later controversies.
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Inquisition, History Of Rare Book Libraries, History of Florence, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), History of Freemasonry, and 14 moreHistory of libraries, Eighteenth Century Radical Enlightenment, Eighteenth Century Studies, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Spinozism, Philipp von Stosch, Deism and Freethought, Republic of Letters, Radical Enlightenment, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Eighteenth-century Rome, History of book collecting, Reggenza Lorenese, and History of the book and libraries
This book chapter discusses antiquarian and proto-archaeological activity in Rome and the Roman Campagna in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first part traces and discusses more generally early field activity in and... more
This book chapter discusses antiquarian and proto-archaeological activity in Rome and the Roman Campagna in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first part traces and discusses more generally early field activity in and around the city and especially along the first stretch of the via Appia, from the Porta Capena in the Servian Wall to Bovillae at the twelfth milestone, by excavators ranging from Francesco Bianchini (columbaria of the freedmen of Livia and Augustus), Francesco de’ Ficoroni (Vigna Moroni) and Alessandro Albani (Anzio) early in the eighteenth century, to Thomas Jenkins (Centocelle, Quadraro), Gavin Hamilton (Pantanello, Villa of the Settebassi), Robert Fagan (tomb of Claudia Semne, Campo Iemini) and Venceslao and Pietro Pezzoli (Statuario/Villa dei Quintili) in the second half of the century, to Antonio Nibby (villa of Maxentius) and others in the early nineteenth century. It also discusses in depth the cultural heritage legislation of the Papal State and its supervising body, papal and private collecting, restoration, export and the art and antiquities market. The second part focuses on the Frattocchie area between the eleventh and twelfth milestone of the Appia Antica, especially the site of Bovillae and its rediscovery, documentation and partial destruction over the course of the nineteenth century. Sketching briefly the early field investigations of Robert Fagan in the area, at Grotta Vascella and on other lands belonging to the Colonna family, it moves on to the discovery, identification and documentation of the remains of the ancient site of Bovillae by Giuseppe Tambroni, Luigi Poletti and their team in the 1820s. The chapter ends with a brief outline of the successive destruction of the unearthed ancient structures and sections of the ancient Roman road, and of the documentary work carried out by Luigi Canina and Pietro Rosa in the early 1850s.
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Antiquarianism, History of Collecting, History of Antiquarianism, Antiquities Market, History of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Classical Tradition, and 15 moreHistory of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Ancient Roman Marbles, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, Luigi Canina, Roman Campagna, Bovillae, Grand Tour Studies, Via Appia Antica, History of Collecting and Art Markets, Cultural heritage legislations, Gavin Hamilton, Frattocchie, Robert Fagan, Thomas Jenkins, and Giuseppe Tambroni
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This book chapter contextualises and discusses what is left of the correspondence between the artist, collector and dealer, Count Anton Maria Zanetti di Girolamo, or Zanetti the Elder (1680-1767) and the German connoisseur and collector,... more
This book chapter contextualises and discusses what is left of the correspondence between the artist, collector and dealer, Count Anton Maria Zanetti di Girolamo, or Zanetti the Elder (1680-1767) and the German connoisseur and collector, Baron Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), active in Rome from 1715 to 1717 and 1722 to 1731, and in Florence from 1731 to his death in 1757. Only one letter, dated 3 October 1733, survives of their correspondence, but there is good reason to assume that the two kept in contact—at least intermittently—over the years. There are also indications that they met in person, at least once in Venice where Zanetti resided. Both Stosch and Zanetti operated as art agents and dealers and had several contacts in common among the more prominent European collectors of the period such as Philippe d’Orléans and Pierre Crozat in France, and Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle and Sir Andrew Fountaine in Britain. Notably they shared a genuine interest in ancient engraved gems, which they both collected. Stosch had early positioned himself as a leading expert in this field, which at the time was at the very heart of antiquarian interest, by publishing a fully illustrated systematic study of gems signed by ancient engravers (Gemmae antiquae caelatae / Pierres antiques gravées, Amsterdam: Bernard Picart 1724). A second volume was advertised, but never appeared. Zanetti, who was a skilled draughtsman, contributed at least one drawing of a gem to Stosch’s book project. Stosch collected thousands of such drawings for his project from several contemporary artists, but the collection was dispersed after his death and Zanetti may have supplied Stosch with other drawings of gems as well. Stosch, who had developed “a reputation” in Rome for training artists in the difficult art of careful visual documentation of gems, antiques and ancient monuments, was hard to impress and generally highly critical of the more or less inaccurate illustrations that the artists of the period produced, whether of ancient gems, medals, sculpture or frescoes. Zanetti, whose gem collection was published by Anton Francesco Gori in 1750 (Stosch’s was published by Winckelmann in 1760), owned several items that must have interested Stosch, especially the famous Antinous gem, now in the Getty Museum. He also owned three curious intaglios inscribed with names believed to be of famous ancient engravers that Stosch wanted to include in his project on signed gems: TEYKPOY, Teukros, and △IOC, abbr. for Dioskourides, both active in Rome towards the end of the first century BCE. So the two had reason to stay in touch. Using the content of the preserved letter as point of departure, the chapter discusses Zanetti’s and Stosch’s converging interests and projects.
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History of Scholarship, Early Modern Italy, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Reception of Antiquity, Engraved gems, and 15 moreHistory of Collecting, History of Antiquarianism, Dactyliothecae, Eighteenth Century Studies, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, Early Modern Correspondence, Anton Maria Zanetti, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, Eighteenth Century Venice and the Veneto, History of Collecting and Art Markets, Gem Collecting, Collections of Gems, and Early modern culture of correspondence
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Art Economics and Markets, History of Collections, Art Market, History of Collections (Archaeology), Engraved gems, and 15 moreHistory of Collecting, Art history, eighteenth-century studies, Eighteenth Century Studies, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Grand Tour, Fine art, art market, art auction, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, History of antiquities collecting, eighteenth century art, Grand Tour, Rome, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, History of Coin Collecting, History of Art Markets, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, and Eighteenth-century Rome
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History of Collections, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Art Market, History of Collections (Archaeology), Engraved gems, and 19 moreHistory of Collecting, History of Antiquarianism, Eighteenth Century Studies, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Italy Early Modern History, 18th-Century Studies, Fine art, art market, art auction, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, History of antiquities collecting, Art Markets & Cultural Economics, eighteenth century art, Grand Tour, Rome, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, History of Art Markets, Art Dealers, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, Eighteenth-century Rome, History of Collecting and Art Markets, and early modern art market
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ABSTRACT: This book chapter considers the interest in Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori and others in... more
ABSTRACT: This book chapter considers the interest in Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori and others in Florence in the heyday of the Etruscan Revival, to the complete re-systematization of the Etruscan glyptic material by Adolf Furtwängler at the turn of the century 1900. It also discusses the interesting cultural phenomenon of the dactyliothecae (gem cast cabinets), amateur and commercial serial-production of gem impressions and gem casts in various materials, and the re-use and imitation of Etruscan gems and goldwork in the so-called “archaeological jewellery” produced by the Castellani and other workshops.
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Italian Studies, History of Scholarship, Antiquarianism, Reception of Antiquity, Ancient jewellery, and 32 moreEngraved gems, History of Collecting, Giacinto Melillo, Adolf Furtwängler, History of Antiquarianism, Dactyliothecae, History of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Classical Tradition, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori, Art History, Jewellery History, Grand Tour, Etruscan and Greek jewellery, Reception of Antiquity in Popular Culture, History of antiquities collecting, Castellani, Etruscheria, Accademia Etrusca, Cortona, Grand Tour Studies, Alessandro Castellani, Giampietro Campana, 18th Century Grand Tour, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, Jewellery History, Etruscan engraved gems, Etruscan engraved gems, Etruscan engraved gems, Etruscan engraved gems, Carlo Giuliano, Carlo Giuliano, Etruscan Revival, and Etruscan Revival
Adolf Furtwängler’s Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum (1900) is a monumental three-volume history of ancient gem-engraving spanning three millennia and several cultural spheres, from the late... more
Adolf Furtwängler’s Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum (1900) is a monumental three-volume history of ancient gem-engraving spanning three millennia and several cultural spheres, from the late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. Published at a time when the field of gem studies was considered highly problematic and more or less a minefield for any serious scholar and collector, it represents a comprehensive restructuring of the whole preserved corpus of ancient engraved gems and cameos based on new typological and stylistic criteria which Furtwängler developed and applied systematically in order to facilitate classification and distinguish ancient originals from the numerous modern copies and fakes that had undermined collecting and study for generations. Although this classification system was in no way foolproof, Furtwänger’s ambitious undertaking which took over a decade to complete provided a solid foundation for later research to build on which has proven remarkably successful and enduring. Furtwängler’s French colleague Ernest Babelon’s prophecy that it would become a reference work for the next century—the twentieth—has in some ways proved to be still valid in the twenty-first: the impact of Furtwängler’s substantial contribution to this field of study is evident in more or less all of the catalogues of larger public and private collections published over the past 120 years. Its significance, not only for the study of gems but as a sort of ancient cultural history, was fully understood by contemporary reviewers of the publication, soon canonized as one of the discipline’s great classics and establishing its author as the doyen he always aspired to be. Favourably received, the work was not seen as provocative or controversial like Furtwängler’s earlier study of masterpieces of Greek sculpture through Roman copies, Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik (1893), and the reviewers were undivided in their praise. But there were not many colleagues around who were competent enough to adequately assess the achievement. It has been estimated that Furtwängler examined up to sixty thousand gems in original over the more than fifteen years he worked on this project, visiting most of the major public and private collections in Europe and the US and establishing direct relations with curators, private collectors and dealers who provided him with all the information he required. This chapter, which is based on unpublished archive material such as annotated manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and cast collections, discusses the state of gem studies as a field of study in the second half of the nineteenth century. It proceeds to consider some of the motives behind Furtwängler’s choice of study material, and shows how his work was carefully planned and systematically carried out according to this initial plan. It reconsiders the published work critically and in detail, as well as its long and complex reception within the scholarly community. It finally discusses the question whether or not Furtwängler succeeded in reviving this field of study, which was once a core antiquarian practice and at the heart of scholarly and popular interest.
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German Studies, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Nineteenth Century Studies, History of Scholarship, and 12 moreHistory of Classical Scholarship, Collecting and Collections, Antiquarianism, Glyptics, Reception of Antiquity, History of Archaeology, Engraved gems, History of Collecting, Adolf Furtwängler, History of Antiquarianism, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, and History of Classical Archaeology
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Written for a Festschrift to honor the Swedish archaeologist Eva Rystedt, this essay is about the highly interesting eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae (cabinets with casts of ancient and... more
Written for a Festschrift to honor the Swedish archaeologist Eva Rystedt, this essay is about the highly interesting eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae (cabinets with casts of ancient and neoclassical engraved gems). It outlines the history of collecting and scholarship, with special focus on the work of Dresden-based antiquary Philipp Daniel Lippert (1702-1785) and his widely influential Dactyliothecae Universalis and various other editions and supplements, published between 1753 and 1776. Other manufacturers, collectors and scholars discussed include Philipp von Stosch, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Christian Dehn, Bartolomeo & Pietro Paoletti, Johannes Wiedewelt, James Tassie and others.
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History of Collections, Classical Reception Studies, Antiquarianism, Winckelmann, History of Collections (Archaeology), and 10 moreReception of Antiquity, History of Collecting, History of Antiquarianism, Dactyliothecae, Roman Art, Philipp von Stosch, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Christian Dehn, and James Tassie
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German Studies, History of Collections, Antiquarianism, Reception History, 18th Century, and 21 moreWinckelmann, Reception of Antiquity, Engraved gems, History of Collecting, History of Antiquarianism, Dactyliothecae, Gems, History of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Classical Tradition, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, James Tassie, Grand Tour, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, Winckelmann Aesthetics History of Archaeology, History of antiquities collecting, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, Cast Collections, Gem Casts, Grand Tour Studies, and Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts
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History of Scholarship, Winckelmann, History of Archaeology, History of Collecting, History of Antiquarianism, and 7 moreHistory of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Antiquarianism - History of Archaeology - Winckelmann, Philipp von Stosch, History of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Ancients and Moderns, Palatine hill, Francesco Bianchini, and Via Appia Antica
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German Studies, Eighteenth Century History, History of Scholarship, History of Collections, Classical Reception Studies, and 35 moreCollecting and Collections, Antiquarianism, 18th Century, Winckelmann, Glyptics, History of Collections (Archaeology), Reception of Antiquity, History of Archaeology, History of Collecting, Patronage and collecting, History of Antiquarianism, Dactyliothecae, Collectors and Collecting, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Christian Dehn, Grand Tour, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, Winckelmann Aesthetics History of Archaeology, The Grand Tour, History of antiquities collecting, Roman gems, Roman Glyptics and Jewelry, Antiquaria e collezionismo, Ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman Glyptics, Ancient Greek and Roman Glyptics, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, Greek Gems, History of Collectionism, History of Classical Archaeology, Gem Casts, Grand Tour Studies, and Neoclassical Gems
A short article on Thomas Dempster's De Etruria Regali and the Etruscheria in eighteenth-century Florence written for a Swedish popular science journal
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Antiquarianism, Winckelmann, Etruscology, History of Antiquarianism, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, and 11 moreFlorence, Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori, Etruscheria, Filippo Buonarroti, Thomas Dempster, History of Etruscology, Etruscan Revival, Thomas Dempster (1579-1625), De Etruria Regali, and Dempster's De Etruria Regali
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This journal article examines and discusses critically how classical (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) and postclassical (mainly neoclassical) engraved gems and cameos were collected, studied, classified and displayed in the eighteenth,... more
This journal article examines and discusses critically how classical (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) and postclassical (mainly neoclassical) engraved gems and cameos were collected, studied, classified and displayed in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, both in general and more specifically as reflected in a major unpublished dactyliotheca (gem cast cabinet) of several thousand gem casts assembled by an amateur collector, Adolf Frucht (1852-1914), in Munich, Germany. This cast cabinet, now in the collection of the Classics Department at the University of Texas at Austin, was assembled around the turn of the century 1900, thus long after the short-lived cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae was definitely over. It includes incomplete series and items from well-known eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century cast producers, notably Philipp Daniel Lippert (1702-1785) in Dresden and Bartolomeo (1758-1834) and Pietro Paoletti (1801-1847) in Rome, as well as numerous casts made by Frucht himself in various public collections in Germany over a period of around two decades. Frucht’s ambitious project to create a gigantic modern dactyliotheca representative of ancient gem-engraving as a whole was initiated using a traditional antiquarian classification system developed by the gem collector and connoisseur Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) for his own collection, and later used by Winckelmann in his catalogue of the Stosch gems (Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch, 1760). This system became widely influential as a model for how collections should be displayed and published in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was employed e.g. in Lippert’s four-volume Dactyliotheca Universalis (1755-76) and two-volume Dactyliothec (1767). But at a crucial point in his work process, Frucht decided to abandon the Stosch-Winckelmann system and restructure his material after new criteria recently developed by the archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) in his three-volume publication Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum (1900). This pioneering work was published when Furtwängler was professor of archaeology and director of the antiquities collections in Munich, and there is a direct link between the two men, the amateur and the professional, as well as close links to a circle of private collectors in the city grouped around Furtwängler. But Frucht’s work was cut short by his unexpected death in 1914, leaving his reclassification work and the accompanying catalogue he was compiling unfinished. His collection, preserved exactly as Frucht left it at the time of his death, offers unique insights into gem collecting at a crucial moment in the history of gem scholarship when Furtwängler revolutionized this moribund field of study, saving it from neglect and marginalization with his systematic investigations of gems carrying artists’ signatures (1888-1889), on the 12.000 gems in the Berlin collection (1896) and on the whole known preserved corpus of gems (1900). The latter study, Furtwängler’s great Gemmenbuch, presents a selection of 4.000 gems chosen from a body of more than 50.000 preserved gems that Furtwängler examined in original in all the major public and private collections in Europe and the US over the fifteen years he worked on the project. Taking as its point of departure these two principal systems of classification—the antiquarian one developed by Stosch-Winckelmann in mid-eighteenth-century Florence, and Furtwängler's complete re-systematization of the whole surviving corpus of ancient gems in the last decades of the nineteenth century—the study discusses how this field of study has evolved over the centuries, moving in and out of scholarly and popular focus. In addition to a closer examination of some instrumental scholarly publications from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth century and beyond, the study also discusses various commercial gem cast producers, notably Christian Dehn (1696-1770), Lippert, Paoletti, James Tassie (1735-1799), and Tommaso Cades (1772-c. 1850).
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History of Collections, Collecting and Collections, Winckelmann, Reception of Antiquity, Engraved gems, and 15 moreHistory of Collecting, Adolf Furtwängler, Dactyliothecae, Collectors and Collecting, Gems, Classifications & reclassifications of art in early modern art theory, art history, & art collecting, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Roman gems, Greek Gems, Dactyliothèques, Gem Casts, Neoclassical Gems, and Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts
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Winckelmann, History of Antiquarianism, History of Art History, Antiquarianism - History of Archaeology - Winckelmann, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and 5 moreHistory of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Ancients and Moderns, Johann Joachim Winckelmann Eighteenth century art history philosophy Enlightenment, Archaeology and Art History, Winckelmann Aesthetics History of Archaeology, and History of Classical Archaeology
This text is about the study (and collecting) of ancient engraved gems, focusing on the work of three German scholars: Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) and Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907).
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Reception Studies, History of Scholarship, History of Classical Scholarship, Classical Reception Studies, Antiquarianism, and 11 moreWinckelmann, Engraved gems, History of Collecting, Adolf Furtwängler, History of Antiquarianism, Dactyliothecae, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Antiquarianism - History of Archaeology - Winckelmann, Philipp von Stosch, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Das Neue Gelehrte Europa
[The Study of Etruscan Glyptic] Written in Swedish for a popular science journal, this short piece is an outline of the history of scholarship and collecting covering the period c. 1750-2000. There are plans to translate, transform and... more
[The Study of Etruscan Glyptic] Written in Swedish for a popular science journal, this short piece is an outline of the history of scholarship and collecting covering the period c. 1750-2000. There are plans to translate, transform and expand the text into a longer article for an academic journal (I just never get round to it!).
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Classical Archaeology, History of Scholarship, History of Classical Scholarship, Antiquarianism, Glyptics, and 13 moreReception of Antiquity, Etruscology, Adolf Furtwängler, History of Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Eduard Gerhard, Peter Zazoff, Wolfram Martini, Ingrid Krauskopf, Mario Torelli, Ulf R. Hansson, and Etruscan gems
ABSTRACT: This short piece, written for a Swedish popular science journal, discusses the early career of the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), especially his experiences as fellow of the German Archaeological... more
ABSTRACT: This short piece, written for a Swedish popular science journal, discusses the early career of the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), especially his experiences as fellow of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome in the late 1870s.
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Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Self and Identity, Italian Studies, Gender and Sexuality, and 9 morePersonal Identity, Eighteenth Century Radical Enlightenment, Eighteenth Century Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Philipp von Stosch, 18th-Century Studies, Radical Enlightenment, Eighteenth Century Libertinism, and Eighteenth Century Italy
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ABSTRACT. A popular sight for visitors to Florence around the time when Horace Walpole arrived in the city (1739) was a magnificent private museo, which, according to the leading antiquary of the period Anton Francesco Gori, was 'one of... more
ABSTRACT. A popular sight for visitors to Florence around the time when Horace Walpole arrived in the city (1739) was a magnificent private museo, which, according to the leading antiquary of the period Anton Francesco Gori, was 'one of the great jewels of the city and a compendium of the most select museums'. Equally famous, even notorious, was the eccentric owner of these enviable collections, the elusive Baron Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757). A native of Brandenburg in Germany, the handsome and witty but penniless young Stosch had travelled widely in his early twenties. Welcomed and embraced by the rich and powerful men of the period, he had gained access — even where others before him had failed — to their closely guarded art collections and acquired an unrivalled first-hand knowledge of virtù, but especially of ancient gems, coins and medals. Operating as a diplomat, collector and art agent, Stosch managed to build an extensive personal network of contacts that included popes and cardinals, royalty, statesmen, and more or less everyone worth knowing in the Republic of Letters. In 1722 he settled permanently in Italy, where he became an oracle for collectors and instrumental in the trade in antiquities that was then emerging as a major international market. His interest in the art and material culture of the Ancients was genuine and intense, but it was also a convenient cover for his secret assignment from Robert Walpole's government to spy on the exiled Stuart court and British Jacobites in Rome. Widely respected as a connoisseur whose expertise and advice was 'often sought and seldom ignored', the brilliant but controversial Stosch blended his professional interests with more private ones, and expertly combined the worlds of antiquaria and diplomatica in which he moved with the various male homosocial subcultures that he also belonged to, blending in and moving effortlessly between high and low, gaining both powerful friends and formidable enemies, but soon also attracting the attention of the Inquisition. His undercover work as a political informant did not remain secret for very long, which made his life in Italy increasingly problematic, as did his involvement in the establishment of Italy's first masonic lodge, his large holdings of banned books listed on the pope's Index, and rumours of atheism, libertinism and open homosexuality. All of this no doubt tarnished his repute as a virtuoso, but it also added to his attraction in no small way. Stosch, who seems to have left no one who met him indifferent, Walpole included, became something of an institution, and there were a number of reasons why a steady stream of visitors continued to flock to him and his casa-museo in Rome and later Florence. His modern reception has on the whole been unfavourable, coloured by the dense and mostly negative mythology that was created around his persona already in his lifetime. He is consistently misrepresented, even in more recent scholarship: the many entertaining but wildly exaggerated and malicious anecdotes and tall tales uncritically reproduced—often with added insinuations of sexual and moral dissolution—have contributed to undermining Stosch's reputation as the serious collector and connoisseur he in fact was and to diminishing his importance in the history of collecting. What is left is often little more than a disturbing image of a greed-driven and debauched opportunist. In addition to taking a closer look at Stosch's interaction with members of the Walpole family and Horace Walpole's circle, this lecture discusses Stosch's substantial contribution to the history of collecting and examines the Museo Stoschiano as a key site for the production and transfer of antiquarian knowledge and queer culture in early eighteenth-century Rome and Florence.
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ABSTRACT. Even if the widely influential German scholar and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), active in Rome and Florence in the first half of the eighteenth century, was in several ways instrumental in the trade in antiquities... more
ABSTRACT. Even if the widely influential German scholar and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), active in Rome and Florence in the first half of the eighteenth century, was in several ways instrumental in the trade in antiquities that was then emerging as a major international market, he has remained one of its most controversial, enigmatic and misrepresented—because inadequately studied—actors. In 1755, J.J. Barthélémy reported to the comte de Caylus in Paris that Stosch had “plundered” the whole of Italy, and still kept the country enchained through his many contacts. Such exaggerated and mostly malicious comments and anecdotes are numerous and should certainly not be taken literally, but they hint at a complexity that is only fragmentarily known and deserves critical examination. Through extensive travelling and association with key figures in the Republic of Letters like François Fagel, Richard Bentley, Bernard de Montfaucon, Sebastiano Bianchi, and notably Alessandro Albani, Stosch expertly positioned himself at the centre of a powerful international network which kept him exceptionally well-informed on all that was happening in the world of collecting and dealing: no notable collection remained unknown to him and no ancient artworks of any significance were discovered or changed hands without his knowledge. Stosch was able to maintain and further cultivate this extensive network during his forced exile in Florence (1731-57), where his own constantly growing “museo” in the palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo became an important meeting-point for the city’s antiquarians and foreign community, and also attracted many foreign visitors. Stosch’s close association with the British, as a spy and freemason, made him especially well-connected among British expats, grand tourists and collectors. Although knowledge of specific transactions and artworks involved is patchy, the extent and significance of Stosch’s dealing and collecting activities may be reconstructed via correspondence and his well-documented networks, where objects and information were constantly exchanged. Building on extensive archive material and contemporary sources, this paper explores Stosch’s substantial contribution to the history of collecting and his overlapping roles as scholar, collector, agent, dealer and trend-setter—especially in the field of classical and neoclassical gems, where he made a considerable and lasting impact.
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Italian Studies, Collecting and Collections, Art Market, History of Collecting, Art collectors and connoisseurs, and 17 moreEighteenth Century Studies, 18th century Rome, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Grand Tour, Fine art, art market, art auction, Collecting and connoisseurship, History of antiquities collecting, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, 18th Century Florence, History of Art Markets, Grand Tour Studies, Collections of Antiquities, 18th Century Grand Tour, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, Sculpture Collecting, and Gem Collecting
ABSTRACT: This paper considers the interest in Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori and others in... more
ABSTRACT: This paper considers the interest in Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori and others in Florence in the heyday of the Etruscheria, to the complete re-systematization of the Etruscan glyptic material by Adolf Furtwängler at the turn of the century 1900. It also discusses the interesting cultural phenomenon of the dactyliothecae (gem cast cabinets), amateur and commercial serial-production of gem impressions and gem casts in various materials, and the re-use and imitation of Etruscan gems and goldwork in the so-called “archaeological jewellery” produced by the Castellani and other workshops.
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Italian Studies, History of Scholarship, Reception of Antiquity, Ancient jewellery, Engraved gems, and 21 moreAdolf Furtwängler, Etruscan studies, Eighteenth Century Studies, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori, Art History, Jewellery History, Grand Tour, Etruscan and Greek jewellery, Etruscheria, 19th-century Jewellery History, Accademia Etrusca, Cortona, Grand Tour Studies, Alessandro Castellani, Giampietro Campana, 18th Century Grand Tour, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, Jewellery History, Etruscan engraved gems, Etruscan Revival, and Castellani Jewellery
ABSTRACT: This paper examines collegiality and the instrumentality of informal networks in the production of knowledge in classical archaeology around 1900 as exemplified by the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), whose... more
ABSTRACT: This paper examines collegiality and the instrumentality of informal networks in the production of knowledge in classical archaeology around 1900 as exemplified by the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), whose pioneering work has made a deep and lasting impact in several areas of the discipline. Furtwängler suffered from bad temper and paranoid tendencies which resulted in a highly problematic work situation and strained relations not only with colleagues at work in Berlin and Munich, with whom he interacted in an often aggressive and tactless manner, but with the scholarly community at large. This is evident from his correspondence and even published works and book reviews, where unreasonably harsh judgments and downright personal attacks are not uncommon. We hear from several sources that Furtwängler was “more feared than loved”, but always respected for the quality of his work. This paper is based on a reconstruction of Furtwängler's various networks from unpublished archive material and discusses his strategies for creating and maintaining necessary relations on a professional level with colleagues and other contacts who were considered indispensable or useful for his own work. Furtwängler’s vast personal archive and extensive information channels, which encompassed an exceptionally wide international spectrum of archaeologists and art historians, museum curators, collectors, art dealers, administrators, and politicians are comparable to those of Philipp von Stosch before him and John Beazley after.
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ABSTRACT: In 1724 the German expatriate Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) firmly positioned himself in the Republic of Letters with a learned treatise on ancient engraved gems carrying artists’ signatures (1724). His own astonishing gem... more
ABSTRACT: In 1724 the German expatriate Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) firmly positioned himself in the Republic of Letters with a learned treatise on ancient engraved gems carrying artists’ signatures (1724). His own astonishing gem collection, which at the time of his death comprised 3 444 originals and pastes and 28 000 gem casts, was later published by Winckelmann and purchased by Frederick II of Prussia. Stosch’s Grand Tour lasted from 1709 to 1717, and in 1722 he moved permanently to Italy, where he settled in Rome. Over the decades, Stosch managed to build an extensive international network of contacts which included the pope, royalty, statesmen, aristocrats, clergymen and every scholar and collector of ancient art worth knowing. These connections were expertly cultivated to further his two main activities in life: antiquaria and diplomatica—Stosch collected gems, sculpture, paintings, drawings, maps, books and other things on a massive scale, but also had a side career as a British “spy”. In 1731 Stosch was forced into exile in Florence, where he became a founding member of the masonic lodge and very active in several learned societies and academies. His home in the Palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo was soon transformed into a key meeting point for the city’s antiquarians, freemasons, and foreign community, as well as for international visitors who flocked to the borgo degli Albizi to catch a glimpse of this famous—and in some circles notorious—man and admire his museo. This paper discusses grand tourism and especially the international context of “non-marrying men”, in which Stosch operated as a significant actor during his Roman and Florentine years, and which included instrumental figures like Winckelmann, Alessandro Albani, Horace Mann, Horace Walpole, Wilhelm Muzell-Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori and many others.
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ABSTRACT: Several sources suggest that when the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) left his position at the Berlin Museums in 1894 to become professor of archaeology and numismatics in Munich, he brought with him... more
ABSTRACT: Several sources suggest that when the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) left his position at the Berlin Museums in 1894 to become professor of archaeology and numismatics in Munich, he brought with him an impressive network of archaeologists, museum curators, collectors and dealers, and soon turned his new home town into an important caravanserai of the international trade in antiquities. He was also appointed director of four important collections in the city: the Glyptothek, the Antiquarium/vase collection, the cast collection, and the numismatic collection. Himself a serious collector and specialist on ancient sculpture and engraved gems, Furtwängler made these contacts his powerbase, offering expert advice to major museums, private collectors and dealers around the world in return for information, building one of the largest private archaeological archives in existence, with extensive photo documentation. No important ancient artworks were discovered, came on the market or changed hands without Furtwängler’s knowledge. The extensive professional network that he managed to create is comparable to those of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) before him and John Beazley (1885-1970) after. This short paper discusses the culture of professional and amateur collecting in the wake of Furtwängler’s scholarly activities in Munich and includes notable Munich collectors and agents like Paul Arndt (1865-1937) and James Loeb (1867-1933), but also Adolf Frucht (1852-1914), Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914), Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928), John Marshall (1876-1958), Michel Tyszkiewicz (1828-1897) and others.
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German Studies, History of Collections, Art Market, Glyptics, History of Collections (Archaeology), and 19 moreEngraved gems, History of Collecting, Adolf Furtwängler, Munich, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, History of antiquities collecting, Ancient and Post-Classical Glyptic, Roman gems, Greek Gems and Fingerrings, Roman Glyptics and Jewelry, Greek and Roman Sculpture, Greek Glyptics, Ancient Greek and Roman Glyptics, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, Greek Gems, History of Art Collecting 19th/20th Century, Ancient Engraved Gems, James Loeb, and Paul Arndt
ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) was one of the most prolific classical archaeologists of his time; his books on Mycenaean pottery, Olympia bronzes, Greek sculpture and engraved gems were almost immediately canonized within the... more
ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) was one of the most prolific classical archaeologists of his time; his books on Mycenaean pottery, Olympia bronzes, Greek sculpture and engraved gems were almost immediately canonized within the scholarly community and are still considered to be among the great “classics” of the discipline. Furtwängler suffered from bad temper and paranoid tendencies resulting in a highly problematic work situation and frosty relations, not only with his colleagues in Berlin and Munich where he did most of his work, but with the scholarly community at large: we learn from several sources that Furtwängler was “more feared than loved”, even hated as a person, but always highly respected as a scholar, despite the many harsh judgments and personal attacks on colleagues that his published works contained. The preserved archive material, especially Furtwängler’s unpublished correspondence, provides valuable insights into his various strategies for building professional networks and maintaining necessary relations on a professional level with colleagues and other contacts whom he considered useful or indispensable for his own work. The comparison between the list of individuals that Furtwängler corresponded with in relation to a certain research project and the people he actually thanked in the final publication has also proved revealing and significant in the general reconstruction of Furtwängler’s work methods. His personal archive and research networks, which covered a very wide international spectrum of professional and amateur archaeologists, administrators, museum curators, collectors and art dealers, are comparable to those of Philipp von Stosch before him and John Beazley after.
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German Studies, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Archival Studies, Reception Studies, and 12 moreNineteenth Century Studies, Archives, Biography, History of Scholarship, History of Classical Scholarship, Intellectual and cultural history, History of Archaeology, Adolf Furtwängler, Biography and Life-Writing, Nineteenth-century Germany, Letters and Documents, and History of Classical Archaeology
ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler’s Die antiken Gemmen (1900) is a monumental three-volume history of gem-engraving spanning three millennia. It represents a complete restructuring of the whole preserved corpus of ancient gems and cameos based... more
ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler’s Die antiken Gemmen (1900) is a monumental three-volume history of gem-engraving spanning three millennia. It represents a complete restructuring of the whole preserved corpus of ancient gems and cameos based on new typological and stylistic criteria which made it easier to sort out modern copies and fakes and provided a solid foundation for later research to build on. Its significance not only for the study of gems but of ancient cultures in general was fully understood by contemporary reviewers, and it soon became one of the discipline’s classic publications, establishing its author as the doyen he always aspired to be. It has been estimated that Furtwängler examined fifty to sixty thousand original gems during the more than fifteen years he worked on this project, visiting most of the major public collections in Europe and the US and establishing personal relations with private collectors and dealers who provided him with all the information he required. This paper, which is based on unpublished archive material such as annotated manuscripts, correspondence, cast collections and photographs, discusses the state of this field of study in the latter half of the nineteenth century and proceeds to consider some of the possible reasons behind Furtwängler’s choice of study material, how his work was carefully planned and systematically carried out according to this initial plan, as well as the reception of his publication within the scholarly community and whether or not it contributed to a ”revival” of this field of study which had once been found at the very centre of antiquarian interest.
ABSTRACT: This paper traces the study and collecting of ancient, "ancient" and neoclassical engraved gems, starting with Philipp von Stosch's "Gemmae Antiquae Caealatae" (Amsterdam 1724) and ending with Adolf Furtwängler's "Die antiken... more
ABSTRACT: This paper traces the study and collecting of ancient, "ancient" and neoclassical engraved gems, starting with Philipp von Stosch's "Gemmae Antiquae Caealatae" (Amsterdam 1724) and ending with Adolf Furtwängler's "Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum" (Berlin & Leipzig 1900). It also considers the highly interesting cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae, cabinets with gem casts and imprints in wax, plaster, sulphur, glass paste, electrotype etc.
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History of Collections, Phoenician, Winckelmann, Glyptics, Engraved gems, and 14 moreHistory of Collecting, Adolf Furtwängler, Dactyliothecae, Philipp von Stosch, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Christian Dehn, James Tassie, Collection, Punic Archaeology, Cast Collections, Dactyliothèques, Gem Casts, and Pierres Gravées
In this talk, the ambitious project for a Topographical "Atlas of the Whole World" of the German connoisseur and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) is presented and critically discussed. Stosch collected maps, drawings and prints of... more
In this talk, the ambitious project for a Topographical "Atlas of the Whole World" of the German connoisseur and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) is presented and critically discussed. Stosch collected maps, drawings and prints of regions, cities, fortifications, buildings and monuments for a gigantic visual atlas that was never finished. At the time of Stosch's death, the material consisted of more than 30.000 maps, prints and drawings collected in 326 large folio volumes, of which 62 concerned the city of Rome.
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Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Historical maps, Antiquarianism, Drawing collecting, Prints and Drawings, and 10 moreArchitectural Drawings, Philipp von Stosch, Francesco Borromini, 18th Century Drawings Collecting, Roman history - Roman archaeology - Origins of Rome - Roman Kingship, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, Ancient Topography; Topography of ancient Rome, Raphael, Historical Atlases, and Map Collecting
Adolf Furtwängler is considered one of the pioneers of modern classical archaeology with an impressive bibliography of noteworthy studies, many of which have made a deep and lasting impact on the discipline. Often described as one of the... more
Adolf Furtwängler is considered one of the pioneers of modern classical archaeology with an impressive bibliography of noteworthy studies, many of which have made a deep and lasting impact on the discipline. Often described as one of the chief exponents of positivism in archaeology, Furtwängler's work was deeply affected by his first-hand experience of large-scale archaeology and his publications reveal his talent for structuring great masses of archaeological material in large systems-his students even called him "the Linnaeus of Classical Archaeology". Embracing every aspect of the emerging modern discipline, Furtwängler was also a stern traditionalist whose almost winckelmannian classicism and engagement with contemporary discourses on Panionism and East and West often interfered with his analyses and conclusions. This paper discusses some of the apparent paradoxes in Furtwängler's work and its reception.
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This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Roman Campagna in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Special focus is on developments during the early decades of the eighteenth... more
This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Roman Campagna in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Special focus is on developments during the early decades of the eighteenth century which culminated in the high profile «proto-archaeological» excavations of imperial palaces on the Palatine, of tombs and columbaria along the via Appia, and of villas in the Campagna and other projects. Many of these latter projects were carried out in the 1720s. Although modern judgment of such early field investigations has been mostly negative, historians of antiquarianism and ar¬chaeology have recently recognised the pioneering work that was in fact at times being done here by some of the excavators, sponsors, artists and scholars involved. Especially the visual documentation of archaeological contexts and finds has at¬tracted much interest lately for its relative precision and detail. Rather than focus on these already well-known excavations alone, the aim of this holistic study is to trace and analyse contextually the strategic positioning and interaction of a number of so-called «instrumental actors», both within the local antiquarian community and among its Italian and foreign correspondents, and to emphasise the collective aspects of knowledge production; to look at significant shifts in the approaches to and use of material and visual culture, as exemplified by collecting and collections, visual and textual documentation, correspondence and publications. Among the actors operating in these dynamic clusters in Rome and within larger networks can be mentioned Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729), Francesco de’ Ficoroni (1664-1747), Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755), Gaetano Piccini (active 1702-1740), Filippo Antonio Gualterio (1660-1728), Alessandro Gregorio Capponi (1683-1746), Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), Melchior de Polignac (1661-1742) and Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), but the list is long.
The dense mythology and the many entertaining but mostly malicious anecdotes that surrounded the enigmatic but widely influential Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) already in his lifetime have made him one of the most interesting but also... more
The dense mythology and the many entertaining but mostly malicious anecdotes that surrounded the enigmatic but widely influential Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) already in his lifetime have made him one of the most interesting but also misrepresented—because still insufficiently studied—figures in the history of collecting. Once a key actor in the antiquarian circles of early eighteenth-century Rome and Florence, where he was based for most of his life, Stosch is now chiefly known as the author of a beautifully illustrated study of ancient engraved gems signed by their artists (Gemmae antiquae caelatae/Pierres antiques gravées, 1724), and as a prominent collector of gems catalogued and published by Johann Joachim Winckelmann. The full picture is of course much more complex. Born in Küstrin, Brandenburg, Stosch spent his early years travelling widely across Europe before settling permanently in Italy in the early 1720s. Through his contacts with leading figures in the Republic of Letters like François Fagel, Richard Bentley, Bernard de Montfaucon, Sebastiano Bianchi, Francesco Ficoroni, Anton Francesco Gori, and notably Alessandro Albani, he gained access—even where others had failed—to most principal collections of the time, and expertly positioned himself at the very centre of an extensive international network that included scholars, collectors, royalty, popes, clergymen, statesmen and more or less everyone worth knowing in the world of collecting and dealing. These contacts, who were expertly cultivated, kept Stosch exceptionally well-informed of everything that was happening in the field: no collection remained unknown to him and no items of any significance were excavated, came on the market, or changed hands without his knowledge. Initially encouraged by his patron François Fagel to start collecting coins and medals, Stosch soon turned to engraved gems, which he confessed to Fagel had become “ma passion… ma folie dominante”. After having established himself in Italy, his homes in Rome and later Florence became natural meeting-points for local antiquarian circles as well as for expatriates and grand tourists, and figured prominently in for example the travelogues of Charles de Brosses and Johann Georg Keyssler, the drawings and diaries of the artist Pier Leone Ghezzi, and the correspondence of the two Horaces (Walpole and Mann), Albani, Winckelmann, the Count Caylus, J.J. Barthélémy, and many others. While in Rome Stosch greatly widened his collecting interests to include ancient sculpture, paintings, drawings and prints, rare books and manuscripts, maps, naturalia, arms and armour. His fervent collecting activities culminated in his astonishing Topographical Atlas project, which at the time of his death comprised no less than 324 bound volumes of maps, prints and drawings documenting the buildings and monuments of Rome, including all the drawings left by the architect Francesco Borromini. Described by Carl Justi as an ‘oracle for collectors’ but ‘zurückhaltend im Punkt des Mein und Dein’, Stosch was an expert in promoting his own collections and very generous in allowing fellow collectors and antiquarians access to them for study purposes, but extremely reluctant to part with any of his cherished items unless offered something more attractive in return. ‘I find I cannot live without Stosch’s intaglia [sic] of the Gladiator with the vase’, wrote Horace Walpole yearningly in a letter to the British Envoy in Florence, Horace Mann, who was trying his best to procure that particular and other gems for his friend from Stosch’s closely guarded collections, to no avail. The gem in question was instead presented as a gift to Viscount Duncannon, the Earl of Bessborough, in return for securing Stosch’s pension from the British Crown. Because Stosch’s collecting was not funded by his dealing in antiquities alone, but notably by the money he received from the British government for spying on the Old Pretender, James Stuart, who was staying in Rome as the Pope’s guest. This latter assignment most likely contributed to Stosch’s forced exile from the city in 1731 and his move to Florence, where his constantly growing museo soon required separate housing in the palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo, where the local antiquarians, letterati and freemasons intersected with the city’s expatriate community and many foreign visitors. Stosch’s close association with the British, as an informant but also as co-founder of the first masonic lodge in Florence together with Horace Mann and others, made him especially well-connected among British expats, grand tourists and collectors. From time to time, Stosch also expressed the wish to leave Italy and settle in Britain and possibly obtain a position at Oxford, which he had once visited as the guest of Richard Bentley. Based on a current book project, this talk traces and analyses Philipp von Stosch’s collecting activities and network building, from his formative grand tour (1709-17), through his Roman (1722-31) and Florentine (1731-57) periods, to his death and the complicated and drawn-out sale of his vast estate. It also considers the afterlife of parts of Stosch’s rich collections, including the notorious affair of the valuable manuscripts that were later found to have been stolen from the Vatican Library.
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History of Florence, History of Collections, Drawings and Prints, Collecting and Collections, Winckelmann, and 28 morePrints and Drawings, Engraved gems, History of Collecting, Patronage and collecting, History of Antiquarianism, Arms and Armour, Early Modern Collecting, 18th century Rome, Architectural Drawings, History of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Classical Tradition, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Florence, Philipp von Stosch, History of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Ancients and Moderns, Grand Tour, Horace Walpole, 18th-Century Studies, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, History of antiquities collecting, Art Collecting, History of Coin Collecting, 18th Century studies, Grand Tour Studies, 18th Century Grand Tour, Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts, History of Grand Tours, Alessandro Albani, and History of Collecting and Art Markets
AIA South-West Texas Archaeological Society, Trinity University, San Antonio, 7.30 pm
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German Studies, Archaeology, Reception Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, History of Scholarship, and 11 moreClassical Reception Studies, History of Archaeology, Olympia, Greek Sculpture, Adolf Furtwängler, Positivism, Greek and Roman Sculpture, History of Classical Archaeology, Filhellenism, Grecocentrism, and Positivist Archaeology
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Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Archival Studies, Iconography, Museum Studies, and 15 moreHistory of Museums, Archives, Biography, Ancient Religion, History of Scholarship, History of Classical Scholarship, History of Archeology, History of Archaeology, History of Collecting, Biography and Life-Writing, Connoisseurship, Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, History of Classical Archaeology, and Greek and Roman Art
All welcome!
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History of Classical Scholarship, Collecting and Collections, Reception of Antiquity, History of Archaeology, History of Collecting, and 13 moreEtruscology, History of Antiquarianism, Etruscan studies, Etruscans, Collections and Collecting, Reception of Antiquity in Popular Culture, History of antiquities collecting, Etruscheria, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, History of Etruscology, Reception of Classical Antiquiry, Etruscan Revival, and The Etruscans
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History, History of Museums, History of Scholarship, Collecting and Collections, Reception of Antiquity, and 13 moreHistory of Collecting, Etruscology, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Etruscans, History of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Ancients and Moderns, Collections and Collecting, Etruscologia, History of antiquities collecting, Etruscheria, Collecting and Collections History of Collecting, The Reception of Classical Antiquity, History of Etruscology, and Etruscan Revival
Il convegno svilupperà una riflessione globale sull'impatto delle espressioni materiali e visive della civiltà etrusca, dalla sua scoperta nel XV secolo fino alla fine dell’Ottocento, quando l'etruscologia si affermò come disciplina... more
Il convegno svilupperà una riflessione globale sull'impatto delle espressioni materiali e visive della civiltà etrusca, dalla sua scoperta nel XV secolo fino alla fine dell’Ottocento, quando l'etruscologia si affermò come disciplina archeologica. Si tratterà di rivalutare e definire meglio le caratteristiche della cultura materiale e visiva etrusca nel processo di ricezione artistica e culturale in epoca premoderna e moderna, guardando specifi-camente allo status, ancora non ben definito, della “materialità” etrusca, cercando di evidenziare e, se necessario, abbandonare categorie storiografiche predeterminate. Il call for papers è aperto fino alla scadenza del 30 giugno 2022. Le proposte di relazioni di circa 300 parole, accompagnate da una breve nota biografica, devono essere inviate entro il 30 giugno 2022 al seguente indirizzo: convegnoalletrusca@gmail.com
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The conference will develop a holistic reflection on the impact of material and visual expressions of the Etruscan civilization, from its discovery in the 15th century until the end of the 19h century, when Etruscology was established as... more
The conference will develop a holistic reflection on the impact of material and visual expressions of the Etruscan civilization, from its discovery in the 15th century until the end of the 19h century, when Etruscology was established as an archaeological discipline. The aim will be to re-evaluate and seek to better define the characteristics of Etruscan material and visual culture into the process of artistic and cultural reception in the early modern and modern period, by looking specifically at the status, still not quite well defined, of Etruscan materiality, by trying to highlight and, if necessary, leave behind predetermined historiographic categories.
The deadline for paper proposals is Thursday 30 June 2022.
Proposals for papers of approximately 300 words, accompanied by a brief biographical note, should be sent before 30 June 2022 to the following address : convegnoalletrusca@gmail.com
The deadline for paper proposals is Thursday 30 June 2022.
Proposals for papers of approximately 300 words, accompanied by a brief biographical note, should be sent before 30 June 2022 to the following address : convegnoalletrusca@gmail.com
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As archaeologists and historians, we depend upon archives as crucial repositories of primary and secondary sources. We visit them to dive deeper into our subjects and to learn about people and events on a personal level. Not only are... more
As archaeologists and historians, we depend upon archives as crucial repositories of primary and secondary sources. We visit them to dive deeper into our subjects and to learn about people and events on a personal level. Not only are archives rich in unpublished sources that undoubtedly add new angles to our scholarship, but they also produce a number of curious topics that simply do not fit within the scope of our projects. The goal of this conference is to highlight the utility of archives in our work as historians and archaeologists and we hope to analyse the purpose of archives in our unique investigations while at the same time answering questions about archival research. We focus specifically on the idea of research rabbit holes. We have all fallen into these, but what subjects keep leading us astray? Or are we led astray? Does the seemingly unrelated material bring us back to our original research? We have all experienced the mischief of archives and their materials but they do not always fit in the scope of our larger research. We invite presentations that talk about and analyse the important influence archives, archival materials, and the tangents that pull us away temporarily. Papers may focus on the study of archival research as a methodology, but we will give preference to papers that allow researchers to discuss a topic that they have found interesting but that does not fit within the scope of their usual projects. We are seeking abstracts of 250 words for papers/presentations that will be no longer than 20 minutes. By August
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History of Science, Archives, History of Scholarship, History of Archives, Digital Archives, and 9 moreRecordkeeping and Archives, History of Collections (Archaeology), History of Archaeology, History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Archive, History of Art and archaeology, History and Archives, History of Classical Archaeology, and History of Archaeology and Anthropology
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The history of archaeology constitutes an important and steadily growing field of study. Classical archaeology or the study of the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean has a long tradition to build on, but it is only in recent decades... more
The history of archaeology constitutes an important and steadily growing field of study. Classical archaeology or the study of the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean has a long tradition to build on, but it is only in recent decades that this long history has been the subject of more systematic critical investigation and contextual assessment that reach beyond the conventional stories of great men and their discoveries. Significant aspects and implications of the discipline are often neglected or overlooked because they are beyond the scope of these traditional histories, many of which are of course fine pieces of scholarship that have managed to reach an extraordinarily wide popular audience. This two-day conference will address various problems relating to early 20th-century Mediterranean archaeology, with special focus on the study of Greek, Etruscan and Roman cultures from the Archaic to the late Roman period and including Asia Minor, Egypt, the Near East and other regions that were once part of the Hellenistic world and/or a province of the later Roman empire. We welcome contributions that will contribute to a more balanced or holistic picture of the discipline and its various practices in the first half of the last century, including the postwar years. Proposals are invited for individual papers that deal with any aspects of the discipline (in the broadest sense) covering the period c. 1900-1950. We also welcome proposals for full sessions of 4 related papers. Topics can include, but are not limited to: the history of excavation and publication projects histories of individual actors, groups and/or institutions the problem of so-called " instrumental actors " versus " common " practitioners histories of collecting and collections cultural heritage legislation and management archaeological societies, congresses and exhibitions political aspects archaeological theory and practices interactions between centre and periphery wartime archaeology popular reception To Propose a Paper: Please send a word document, with your name, institution affiliation (or note that you are an independent scholar), contact information, a paper title, and an abstract with 250 words or less. Full session proposals should contain a session abstract (max. 300 words). For proposals for full sessions, please include the titles, abstracts, authors and contact information for all 4 papers. Each paper should be no more than 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for questions (a total of 30 minutes) Proposals should be sent as word attachments to HARNgroup@googlemail.com before Friday, 22 April 2016. Please make the subject of the email " HARN conference proposal " .
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Classical Archaeology, Roman History, History of Science, History of Scholarship, Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy, and 18 moreGreek Archaeology, Graeco-Roman Egypt, Archaeology of Roman Hispania, Etruscan Archaeology, Roman Egypt, History of Archaeology, Etruscology, Etruscan studies, Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, Italic Archaeology, Etruscology, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Etruscan and pre-Roman archaeology, History of Greek Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, History of Classical Archaeology, History of Roman Archaeology, and History of Mediterranean Archaeology
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14 August 2009. Unpublished
ABSTRACT: This article explores male friendship and networks among the local and international communities in eighteenth-century Rome, Naples and especially Florence of the late Medici and Reggenza periods. It discusses various... more
ABSTRACT: This article explores male friendship and networks among the local and international communities in eighteenth-century Rome, Naples and especially Florence of the late Medici and Reggenza periods. It discusses various antiquarian activities that took place in learned societies, academies, masonic lodges and private homes etc., and how the various intersecting informal clusters of actors (antiquarians, expats, grand tourists, ciceroni, dealers, forgers, and collectors) influenced the study and collecting of ancient artworks, and the general reception of ancient art and culture. The article also includes a critical discussion of male homosociability in the aftermath of Queer Theory.
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Italian Studies, Queer Theory, History of Florence, 18th Century, Winckelmann, and 22 moreReception of Antiquity, History of Collecting, History of Antiquarianism, 18th century Rome, 18th century Italy; women's history; gender studies, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, History of Archaeology - Antiquarianism - Ancients and Moderns, Grand Tour, History of antiquities collecting, 18th Century Florence, Horace Mann, 18th Century Italy, Accademia Etrusca, Cortona, Grand Tour Studies, Queer Theory and Queer Studies, The Reception of Classical Antiquity, Reggenza Lorenese, Società Colombaria, 18th-century Naples, Homosociability, and Gian Gastone de' Medici
NB. THIS ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT IS CURRENTLY BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A CHAPTER IN MY BOOK ON STOSCH (above) ABSTRACT: this article traces the footsteps of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) during his Grand Tour and the period when he lived... more
NB. THIS ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT IS CURRENTLY BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A CHAPTER IN MY BOOK ON STOSCH (above) ABSTRACT: this article traces the footsteps of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) during his Grand Tour and the period when he lived permanently in Rome right up until 1731 when he was forced to leave and settled in Florence. It also discusses some of Stosch's major antiquarian and diplomatic contacts, including François Fagel, Giusto Fontanini, Bernard de Montfaucon, Alessandro Albani, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Francesco Ficoroni, Marcantonio Sabbatini, Francesco Valesio, Leone Strozzi and others.
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Collecting and Collections, Reception of Antiquity, Collecting and Display, History of Collecting, Patronage and collecting, and 8 moreArt collectors and connoisseurs, Collectors and Collecting, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp von Stosch, Grand Tour, Collector, Grand Tour Studies, and Alessandro Albani
NB. THIS ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT IS CURRENTLY BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A CHAPTER IN MY BOOK ON STOSCH (above) ABSTRACT: This article explores the scholarly, collecting and other activities of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) during his Florentine... more
NB. THIS ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT IS CURRENTLY BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A CHAPTER IN MY BOOK ON STOSCH (above) ABSTRACT: This article explores the scholarly, collecting and other activities of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) during his Florentine exile, which lasted from 1731 until his death in 1757. Special focus is on first-hand and secondary accounts from foreign visitors and local antiquarians and literati, in publications, diaries and official and personal correspondence, of the Baron's astonishing collections that were housed in his home, the so-called "Museo Stosch" in the Palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo in borgo degli Albizi.
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History of Florence, Collecting and Collections, History of Freemasonry, Antiquarianism, Winckelmann, and 16 moreHistory of Collecting, Collectors and Collecting, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Florence, Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Grand Tour, Horace Walpole, History of antiquities collecting, Cultural History, Reception of Antiquity, 18th century culture, Horace Mann, Accademia Etrusca, Cortona, Grand Tour Studies, Alessandro Albani, and Società Colombaria
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Collecting and Collections, Reception of Antiquity, Collecting and Display, Engraved gems, History of Collecting, and 15 moreDactyliothecae, Collectors and Collecting, Gems, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Christian Dehn, James Tassie, History of antiquities collecting, Roman gems, Greek Gems and Fingerrings, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Johannes Wiedewelt, Neoclassical Gems, Ancient Engraved Gems, and Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts
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ABSTRACT: This text explores the potential and limits of life-writing for histories of archaeology. It contains a critical discussion of some recent theoretical approaches such as Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Cultural Mobility Theory... more
ABSTRACT: This text explores the potential and limits of life-writing for histories of archaeology. It contains a critical discussion of some recent theoretical approaches such as Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Cultural Mobility Theory and their applicability to the archaeological disciplines in the construction of biographies of humans, texts, things and places. One case study is offered: the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) and his participation in the Olympia Excavations in the late 1870s.
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German Studies, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Archival Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, and 9 moreArchaeological Method & Theory, Archives, Biography, Archaeological Theory, Life-writing, History of Archaeology, Life Writing, Biography and Life-Writing, and History of Classical Archaeology
This was originally an article manuscript that is now being transformed into a book project. Although focus is on four key figures, Philipp von Stosch, Pierre-Jean Mariette, Anton Francesco Gori, and Johann Joachim Winckelmann, it is... more
This was originally an article manuscript that is now being transformed into a book project. Although focus is on four key figures, Philipp von Stosch, Pierre-Jean Mariette, Anton Francesco Gori, and Johann Joachim Winckelmann, it is really a comprehensive history of eighteenth-century scholarship, collecting and popular reception, including the very interesting cultural phenomenon of the dactyliothecae (major gem cast producers such as Christian Dehn, Philipp Daniel Lippert, James Tassie, the Paolettis and others). The initial project phase was generously funded by the Fondazione Famiglia Rausing (Rome).
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Antiquarianism, Winckelmann, Glyptics, Engraved gems, History of Collecting, and 9 moreHistory of Antiquarianism, Antiquarianism - History of Archaeology - Winckelmann, Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori, Pierre-Jean Mariette, Roman gems, Greek Gems and Fingerrings, Etruscheria, and Etruscan gems
ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) was one of the most prolific classical archaeologists of his time; his books on Mycenaean pottery, Olympia bronzes, Greek sculpture and engraved gems were almost immediately canonized within the... more
ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) was one of the most prolific classical archaeologists of his time; his books on Mycenaean pottery, Olympia bronzes, Greek sculpture and engraved gems were almost immediately canonized within the scholarly community and are still considered to be among the great “classics” of the discipline. Furtwängler suffered from bad temper and paranoid tendencies resulting in a highly problematic work situation and frosty relations, not only with his colleagues in Berlin and Munich where he did most of his work, but with the scholarly community at large: we learn from several sources that Furtwängler was “more feared than loved”, even hated as a person, but always highly respected as a scholar, despite the many harsh judgments and personal attacks on colleagues that his published works contained. The preserved archive material, especially Furtwängler’s unpublished correspondence, provides valuable insights into his various strategies for building professional networks and maintaining necessary relations on a professional level with colleagues and other contacts whom he considered useful or indispensable for his own work. The comparison between the list of individuals that Furtwängler corresponded with in relation to a certain research project and the people he actually thanked in the final publication has also proved revealing and significant in the general reconstruction of Furtwängler’s work methods. His personal archive and research networks, which covered a very wide international spectrum of professional and amateur archaeologists, administrators, museum curators, collectors and art dealers, are comparable to those of Philipp von Stosch before him and John Beazley after
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ABSTRACT: A critical overview of the study and collecting of Etruscan engraved gems from the Renaissance to the present (more or less). This paper is related to two forthcoming books (1) the first on the production of engraved gems in... more
ABSTRACT: A critical overview of the study and collecting of Etruscan engraved gems from the Renaissance to the present (more or less). This paper is related to two forthcoming books (1) the first on the production of engraved gems in pre-Roman Italy, 6th to 2nd centuries BCE, which is a much expanded version of my dissertation (Göteborg 2005) and also includes a list of the preserved corpus; (2) the second on eighteenth-century antiquarianism and books on engraved gems (a project still very much in progress).
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Reception Studies, History of Scholarship, History of Collections, Classical Reception Studies, Etruscan Archaeology, and 18 moreHistory of Collections (Archaeology), History of Collecting, Adolf Furtwängler, Etruscan studies, Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori, Peter Zazoff, Wolfram Martini, Etruscan and pre-Roman archaeology, Etruscan Iconography, Etruscan and Greek jewellery, comte de Caylus, Etruscheria, Etruscan gems, Pre-Roman Gems, Italic Gems, History of Classical Archaology, and Accademia Etrusca, Cortona
ABSTRACT: The project work aims at a holistic investigation of the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler’s (1853-1907) substantial scholarly contribution to the field of classical archaeology through a critical study of three of... more
ABSTRACT: The project work aims at a holistic investigation of the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler’s (1853-1907) substantial scholarly contribution to the field of classical archaeology through a critical study of three of Furtwängler’s key publications and their reception within the scholarly community: early Greek bronzes (Die Bronzen und die übrigen kleineren Funde von Olympia, Olympia IV, 1890), Greek sculpture (Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik: kunstgeschichtliche Untersuchungen, 1893), and ancient gems (Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum, 1900). One of the most influential classical archaeologists of all times, Furtwängler published widely on ancient art and archaeology and set a new standard for the discipline throughout Europe. Many of his books have remained standard works of reference to this day. While the few existing critical assessments of Furtwängler’s scholarly contribution are fragmentary in character, based exclusively on his published writings and mostly focusing on the legitimacy of his results in terms of "right" and "wrong" from a presentist standpoint, this new critical study considers additional unpublished archive material, through which it is also possible to partially reconstruct the dynamic working processes which ultimately resulted in the writing and publication of these three “classic” works. Such a reconstruction is crucial to a correct understanding of Furtwängler’s scholarly contribution, since the author himself never accounted for or even commented on his methods of investigation in his published texts. By including in the study a critical analysis of the various subjective and time-specific elements in these creative processes—the archaeologist-author, the intellectual and social milieux he moved in, his interaction with the scholarly community etc.—the potential and limits of such lines of research within the archaeological discipline are further explored and critically assessed.
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ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the study and collecting of ancient engraved gems in the city of Munich around 1900. It traces the scholarly and collecting activities of three very different personalities: the classical archaeologist... more
ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the study and collecting of ancient engraved gems in the city of Munich around 1900. It traces the scholarly and collecting activities of three very different personalities: the classical archaeologist and historian of ancient art Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), author of three major scholarly publications on gems (1888-90; 1896; 1900); his colleague and assistant Paul Arndt (1865-1937), who was also a professional dealer and collector of gems; and the amateur collector Adolf Frucht (1852-1914), who created an extraordinary collection of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century gem casts.
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ABSTRACT: The University of Texas at Austin houses a major collection of plaster and sulphur casts of classical and neoclassical engraved gems. The collection was formed by a European collector around 1900 and includes three 18th- and... more
ABSTRACT: The University of Texas at Austin houses a major collection of plaster and sulphur casts of classical and neoclassical engraved gems. The collection was formed by a European collector around 1900 and includes three 18th- and early 19th-century dactyliothecae (gem or cast cabinets) of German, Italian and British manufacture. This article traces the very interesting history of this collection and its first owner. A complete catalogue with online access is also in preparation.
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ABSTRACT: A short essay on the collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch in Florence, and on Winckelmann's later work on Stosch's collection, with special focus on the Etruscan gems, the well-known so-called Gemma Stosch and the Tydeus... more
ABSTRACT: A short essay on the collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch in Florence, and on Winckelmann's later work on Stosch's collection, with special focus on the Etruscan gems, the well-known so-called Gemma Stosch and the Tydeus etc. In preparation
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This is a recently initiated research project which focuses on Boëthius' period as the first professor and chair of classical archaeology at Gothenburg (1934-55), where he also served as President/Rector Magnificus (1946-51). Sponsored by... more
This is a recently initiated research project which focuses on Boëthius' period as the first professor and chair of classical archaeology at Gothenburg (1934-55), where he also served as President/Rector Magnificus (1946-51). Sponsored by the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, the project will result in a longer journal article.
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The project work aims at a holistic investigation of the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler’s (1853-1907) substantial scholarly contribution to the field of classical archaeology through a critical study of three of Furtwängler’s key... more
The project work aims at a holistic investigation of the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler’s (1853-1907) substantial scholarly contribution to the field of classical archaeology through a critical study of three of Furtwängler’s key publications and their reception within the scholarly community: early Greek bronzes (Die Bronzen und die übrigen kleineren Funde von Olympia, Olympia IV, 1890), Greek sculpture (Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik: kunstgeschichtliche Untersuchungen, 1893), and ancient gems (Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum, 1900). One of the most influential classical archaeologists of all times, Furtwängler published widely on ancient art and archaeology and set a new standard for the discipline throughout Europe. Many of his books have remained standard works of reference to this day. While the few existing critical assessments of Furtwängler’s scholarly contribution are fragmentary in character, based exclusively on his published writings and mostly focussing on the legitimacy of his results in terms of "right" and "wrong" from a presentist standpoint, this new critical study considers additional unpublished archive material, through which it is also possible to partially reconstruct the dynamic working processes which ultimately resulted in the writing and publication of these three “classic” works. Such a reconstruction is crucial to a correct understanding of Furtwängler’s scholarly output, since the author himself never accounted for or even commented on his methods of investigation in his published texts. By including in the study a critical analysis of the various subjective and time-specific elements in these dynamic creative processes—the archaeologist-author, the intellectual and social milieux he moved in, his interaction with the scholarly community etc.—the potential and limits of such lines of research within the archaeological discipline are further explored and critically assessed.
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History of Science, History of Scholarship, Glyptics, History of Archaeology, Engraved gems, and 18 moreOlympia, Greek Sculpture, Adolf Furtwängler, Positivism, Meisterforschung, Gems, Classicism, Roman gems, Greek Gems and Fingerrings, Etruscan gems, Greek and Roman Sculpture, Ancient Greek and Roman Glyptics, Kopienkritik, Ancient Gemstones,jewelery, Greek Gems, Sphragistics, History of Classical Archaeology, and Pre-Roman Gems
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History of Collections, Collecting and Collections, Glyptics, History of Collections (Archaeology), Engraved gems, and 16 moreHistory of Collecting, Dactyliothecae, Collectors and Collecting, Gems, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Roman gems, Greek Gems and Fingerrings, Etruscan gems, Classicising Historians, Greek Gems, Cast Collections, Gem Casts, Pre-Roman Gems, 19th Century History of Collections, Neoclassical Gems, and Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts
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Cultural History, Scandinavia, History of Collections, Collecting and Collections, Engraved gems, and 22 moreHistory of Collecting, Neoclassicism, Dactyliothecae, Collectors and Collecting, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Philipp Daniel Lippert, Christian Dehn, James Tassie, Collecting, 18th-Century Studies, Roman gems, Etruscan gems, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Cast Collections, Gustavus III, Gem Casts, Pre-Roman Gems, Johannes Wiedewelt, Giovanni Pichler, Neoclassical Gems, Classicising Gems, and Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts
This project focuses on the study and collecting of ancient engraved gems and sculpture in the city of Munich around the turn of the century 1900. It traces the scholarly, collecting, and dealing activities of three very different... more
This project focuses on the study and collecting of ancient engraved gems and sculpture in the city of Munich around the turn of the century 1900. It traces the scholarly, collecting, and dealing activities of three very different personalities: the classical archaeologist and historian of ancient art Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), author of three major scholarly publications on gems (1888-90; 1896; 1900); his colleague and assistant Paul Arndt (1865-1937), who was also a professional dealer and collector of gems; and the amateur collector Adolf Frucht (1852-1914), who created an extraordinary collection of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century gem casts.
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Collecting (Art), Collecting and Collections, Nineteenth Century Archaeological Collecting Practices, History of Collecting, Adolf Furtwängler, and 7 moreMunich, Collectors and Collecting, History of antiquities collecting, 19th Century studies, 19th Century History of Collections, München, and Collections of Engraved Gems and Gem Casts
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http://hdl.handle.net/10900/100742
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-1007425
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-42122
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-1007425
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-42122
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A research project executed at the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow by Paweł Gołyźniak, Ulf R. Hansson and Hadrien J. Rambach aiming to investigate scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch... more
A research project executed at the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow by Paweł Gołyźniak, Ulf R. Hansson and Hadrien J. Rambach aiming to investigate scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) that contributed to transformation of eighteenth-century antiquarianism into proto-archaeology. The research is largely based on unknown pictorial and archival materials from the Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, the Vatican Library and private collections (see project's description in the attached file).