Museum Cortonense In Quo Vetera Monumenta Complectuntur Anaglypha, Thoreumata, Gemmæ Inscalptæ, Insculptæque Qu In Academia Etrusca Ceterisque Nobilium Virorum Domibus Adservantur In Plurimis Tabulis reis Distributum, Atque A Francisco Valesio Romano, Antonio Francisco Gorio Florentino, Et Rodulphino Venuti Cortonense Notis Illustratum.

Academia Etrusca (Cortona)

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2317

Author

Imprint

Romæ,: MDCCL., Sumptibus Fausti Amidei Bibliopolæ In Via Cursus. Typis Joannis Generosi Salomoni In Foro S. Ignatii. Superiorum Permissu.

Physical Description

xviii, 126 p., 85 pl.: illus.; 335 mm. (Quarto).

Contents

[T.p., epigraph, dedic., imprimatur] - Ad Lectorem [with illus.] - Index Alphabeticuus Gemmarum, Aliarumque Antiquitatum - [Text with pl.] - Index Rerum Notabilium - Errata sic corrigito.

Responsibility Note

No plate or in-text illustration is signed.

The book is dedicated by the bookseller and publisher Fausto Amidei to Abbé Alexander Joseph Chiappino.

References

D. Gallo, 'Ridolfino Venuti: Antiquario illuminato' in L'Accademia Etrusca [exhibition catalogue, ed. P. Barocchi & D. Gallo] (Cortona: Mus. Accad. Etrus., 1985), p. 84-93.

Summary Note

Most antiquities shown are engraved gems, but there are also bronze and marble statues and bas-reliefs. Two plates at the beginning show excavations.

Provenance

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.

Copy Note

Imperfect; lacks plates 81-85.

Binding Note

18th-century sprinkled calf; spine lettered 'R.A.', red morocco spine-label lettered 'Museum Cortonense'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Etruscans - Italy - Tuscany - History
Antiquities, Etruscan - Antiquities, Roman - Gems - History
Collections - Italy - Tuscany - Cortona - 18th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 18th century

Contributors