Ennio Quirino Visconti

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Ennio Quirino Visconti in a depiction by Rados Luigi, around 1828

Ennio Quirino Visconti (born November 1, 1751 in Rome , † February 7, 1818 in Paris ) was an Italian classical archaeologist and is considered "the most famous archaeologist of his time".

biography

Ennio Quirino Visconti was the son of the Papal Prefect of Antiquities Giovanni Battista Visconti (1722–1784) and brother of Filippo Aurelio (1754–1831) and Alessandro Visconti (1757–1853). His son was the French architect Louis Visconti .

Visconti supported his father in publishing a catalog on the collection of the Museo Pio-Clementino . Later he continued his father's work alone and published the following six volumes (II-VII) under his name by 1807. In 1783 he became custodian of the Vatican library and from 1785 director of the Capitoline Museum in Rome. During the short-term Roman Republic of 1798 he was consul. As a political refugee he came to Paris in 1799, where he became curator of antiquities in the Louvre . In 1803 he became a professor and member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres .

Visconti dealt with Greek iconography and Roman sculpture . He wrote the first volume of a long-lasting standard work on Roman iconography, another three volumes followed after his death until 1826.

Medal Ennio Quirino Visconti 1818

Visconti was elected a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1809 , of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1810 and of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1812 . In 1818 a medal for the “Gallerie metallique des grands hommes français” was dedicated to him. Although he only spent a comparatively short time in France and was Italian, this honor shows his status as a scientist and personality: at that time he was counted among the great men of France.

Fonts (selection)

  • Il Museo Pio-Clementino descritto da Giambattista Visconti e Ennio Quirino Visconti. 7 volumes, Rome 1782–1808 ( digitized version ).
  • Illustrazioni de 'monumenti scelti borghesiani , 2 volumes, Rome 1821, digitized archaeological institute Cologne volume 1 , volume 2 ; Milan 1837.
  • Osservazioni sulla Iliade del Monti . Sansoni, Florence 1961.
  • Per le nozze Grimani-Manin . Venice 1829.
  • Iconography ancienne, ou Recueil des portraits authentiques des empereurs, rois et hommes illustres de l'antiquité.
  • Oeuvres de Ennius Quirinus Visconti , 2 volumes, Milan 1818, digitized UB Heidelberg

literature

Web links

Commons : Ennio Quirino Visconti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 246.
  2. ↑ Stefan Krmnicek, Marius Gaidys: Taught images. Classical scholars on 19th century medals. Accompanying volume to the online exhibition in the Digital Coin Cabinet of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen (= From Croesus to King Wilhelm. New Series, Volume 3). University Library Tübingen, Tübingen 2020, p. 60 f. ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Visconti, Ennio Quirino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1818
Place of death Paris