Commissario delle Antichità
The Commissario delle Antichità ( overseer of antiquities , including papal antiquarian called) was for antiques in the Papal States in charge.
The office was in 1534 by Pope Paul III. introduced and existed until the end of the Papal States in 1870. The Commissario was appointed by the Pope, he was subordinate to the Papal Camerlengo . He was the chief curator of monuments in Rome and in the entire Papal States, responsible for all excavations, excavation licenses and export licenses for antiquities.
The following scholars and artists held the office:
- Latino Giovenale Manetti (1534–1553)
- Mario Frangipani (1556–1569)
- Pietro Tedellini (1570–1584)
- Orazio Boario (1585-1601)
- Mario Arconio (1601-1620)
- Ludovico Compagno (1620-1637)
- Niccolò Menghini (1648–1655)
- Leonardo Agostini (1655-1670)
- Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1670-1694)
- Pietro Santi Bartoli (1694-1700)
- Francesco Bartoli (1700–1733)
- Francesco Palazzi (1733-1744)
- Ridolfino Venuti (1744–1763)
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1763–1768)
- Giovanni Battista Visconti (1768–1784)
- Filippo Aurelio Visconti (1784–1799)
- Carlo Fea (1801-1836)
- Pietro Ercole Visconti (1836–1870)
literature
- Ronald T. Ridley: To Protect the Monuments. The Papal Antiquarian (1534-1870). In: Xenia Antiqua 1, 1992, pp. 117-154.
Remarks
- ↑ Federico Fischetti: Giovan Pietro Bellori commissario delle antichità (1670–1694). Documenti per una storia della conservazione del patrimonio artistico romano. (= Bollettino d'Arte 6th series 93, 2008, 144, Allegato). Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Rome 2009, ISBN 978-88-240-1046-7 .
- ↑ Ilaria Almagno: Francesco Bartoli Commissario delle Antichità. Nuovi contributi. In: Studi romani 55, 2007, pp. 453–472.
- ↑ Thomas Fröhlich: Johann Joachim Winckelmann as Commissario delle Antichità In: Festschrift for Max Kunze. Rutzen, Ruhpolding 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06433-0 , pp. 55-64 ( full text ).