Enrico Paribeni

Enrico Paribeni (born September 4, 1911 in Rome ; died October 4, 1993 in San Casciano in Val di Pesa ) was an Italian classical archaeologist .

Enrico Paribeni, son of the archaeologist Roberto Paribeni (1876–1956) and his wife Francesca Cicconetti, received a careful upbringing that made him an outstanding draftsman and good pianist. At an early age he had the opportunity to make contacts with Italian and foreign academics in his parents' home, which was characterized by academia.

After attending the Istituto Massimiliano Massimo , a Jesuit school institution in Rome, he studied at the University of La Sapienza with the ancient historian Gaetano De Sanctis , the art historian Pietro Toesca and the archaeologists Giulio Emanuele Rizzo and Giulio Quirino Giglioli , from whom he was awarded the Laurea in 1932 completed. He continued his education from 1932 to 1934 at the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene and during this time took part in the excavation of Poliochni . The meeting with Alessandro Della Seta in Athens , who had headed the Scuola Archeologica di Atene since 1919 , had a deeply humane personality and devoted himself to ancient Greece with outstanding intuition and profound philological knowledge, was formative for his further development .

In the winter of 1934/35 Paribeni took part in the excavation of El-Hibe in Egypt as an assistant to Evaristo Breccia and published the preliminary report on the excavation results. With a scholarship from the Istituto storico-archeologico di Rodi , he came to Rhodes in 1936 to investigate the local ancient ceramic production. During this time he began to concentrate his research and scientific interests entirely on ancient Greece . In this way he consciously opposed himself not only to his father's inclinations, but above all to the state-celebrated Roman veneration of Italian fascism . Paribeni dealt intensively with Beazley's Attic vase painters of the red-figure style , with Langlotz's early Greek sculpture schools and the Necrocorinthia of the a little older Humfry Payne .

The military service led Paribeni to the Italian colony Cyrenaica at the beginning of 1937 as inspector of the antiquities administration . After successfully applying, he was given the position of inspector of the Soprintendenz of Florence in 1937 , which he did not take up until 1938. In Florence he came into contact with Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli and a relationship marked by mutual respect began. The position in Florence was followed in 1939 by the position of inspector at the Soprintendenz of Rome. In 1941 Paribeni was posted to the High Command of the Italian Armed Forces in Greece and served at the Italian legation in Athens. Because he refused to serve under the Repubblica Sociale Italiana , he was interned in 1943.

Rescued from deportation, he took up his position again in August 1944 with the Soprintendenz in Rome. From 1953 to 1955 he was director of the Museo Nazionale Romano , in 1955 he took over the soprint tendency for the Forum Romanum and Palatine , which he held until 1964. His appointment to a professorship in Italy was delayed for a long time until Bianchi Bandinelli was able to convince the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Florence of Paribeni's suitability and merits in 1964 . Paribeni was appointed to the chair for archeology and art history of Greek and Roman antiquity and taught there until 1981.

During his time in Rome Paribeni began to systematically turn to the Greek originals and their copies in Rome, and he was also interested in Neo-Attic art produced for a Roman audience. Another fruit of his time in Cyreanica was the Catalogo delle sculture di Cirene , published in 1959 . He extended this research to the legacy of Greek artistic creation throughout Italy and included Greater Greece and Sicily . Finally he also turned to the relations of Greek and Etruscan art and culture.

Thanks to his pronounced expertise in Greek sculpture from the archaic and classical times as well as Greek ceramics at the same time , he was a tireless contributor to the Enciclopedia universale dell'arte from 1958 to 1963 and the Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale from 1958 to 1963, supervised by Bianchi Bandinelli 1970, for which he delivered over 500 articles, including around 300 for Attic ceramics .

Fonts (selection)

Comprehensive index of Enrico Paribeni's writings: Anna Maria Esposito Esposito: Bibliografia. In: Gabriella Capecchi, Anna Maria Esposito, Maria Grazia Marzi, Vincenzo Saladino (eds.): Scritti di Enrico Paribeni. Viella, Rome 1985, pp. IX-XIII.

• Museo Nazionale Romano. Sculture greche del V secolo. Originali e repliche. Libreria dello Stato, Rome 1953.
• Catalogo delle sculture di Cirene. Culture e rilievi di carattere religioso. L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 1959.
• Catalogo dei marmi antichi del palazzo Rondinini di Roma. In: Luigi Salerno (ed.): Palazzo Rondinini. Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura, Rome 1964.
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Italia, Fasc. 51: Milano, Collezzione "HA" Fasc. 2. "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 1972.
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Italia, Fasc. 57: Fiesole, Collezione Costantini. Fasc. 1. "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 1980.
• Scritti di Enrico Paribeni. Edited by Gabriella Capecchi, Anna Maria Esposito, Maria Grazia Marzi, Vincenzo Saladino. Viella, Rome 1985,

literature

• Domenico Musti: Paribeni, Enrico . In: Enciclopedia Italiana. Appendix 5. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1994.
• Gabriella Capecchi, Orazio Paoletti, Carlotta Cianferoni, Anna Maria Esposito, Antonella Romualdi (eds.): In memoria di Enrico Paribeni. Bretschneider, Rome 1998.
• Gabriella Capecchi: Paribeni, Enrico . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . Volume 81. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2014.