Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte
The Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte (INASA) is a non-university research institute founded in Italy in 1922 with headquarters in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome . Research areas are archeology and art history . Further tasks are the promotion of science, the support of researchers from other organizations as well as contributions to the preservation of the cultural assets.
INASA has been a private organization under the supervision of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Property since 2003 .
history
The institute was officially established by decree of October 27, 1918. However, the decree was only implemented on the basis of a law of January 15, 1922. The archaeologist and art historian Corrado Ricci had campaigned for the foundation and was supported by the then Education Minister Benedetto Croce . Ricci remained president of the institute until his death in 1934; his successor Roberto Paribeni then headed it for the next ten years.
Because of the bibliographic documentation tasks, a specialist library of the Ministry of Education was attached to the institute in 1922 , from which today's Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte (BiASA) emerged. Although the library was legally outsourced in 1967, it still has its headquarters together with the institute in the Palazzo Venezia. Some of the library's holdings are still owned by the institute, but are co-managed by the library, which reflects the close relationship between the two organizations.
With the institute and its library, Corrado Ricci wanted to end the dependence of Italian scientists on foreign institutions and promote Italian research, above all through close cooperation with Italian universities and through the awarding of scholarships .
After the Second World War, the institute suffered from chronic underfunding, which limited its scientific scope and made it impossible to award scholarships. For a long time it was managed on a temporary basis. In 2003 the institute became a private organization under the supervision of the Ministry of Cultural Property, which, together with the Ministry of Education, appoints the board members.
Collections
The institute owns various collections consisting of books, manuscripts, drawings and prints, including gifts and bequests from Antonio Pagiara (1928), Rodolfo Lanciani (1929), Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1930), Felice Barnabei (1930), Alesandro Vessella ( 1933), Enrico Possenti (1937), Ernst von Waldthausen (1938), Ugo Monneret de Villard (1955) and Vincenzo Campanari. These collections are located at the branch of the Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte in the Palazzo del Collegio Romano .
archive
Documentation of the institute's activities since its foundation is in the archive. The minutes of the meetings and seminars, the documentation on the work in the Imperial Forums between 1911 and 1933, the notes of the presidents Corrado Ricci and Achille Bertini Calosso as well as the sculptor Cesare Aureli are important.
Photo library
The approximately 130,000 photographs and negatives include a number of rarities from the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. 95,000 pictures belong to the regular collection, the remaining 35,000 come from estates and therefore form separate collections (Corrado Ricci, Ugo Monneret de Villard, Giuseppe Lugli , Lucio Mariani , Felice Barnabei , Enrico Possenti, Achille Bertini Calosso, Giuseppe Galassi). The pictures show Italian and foreign works of art from prehistory to contemporary history, including monuments, buildings, public and private collectibles, gardens, landscapes and documentation of excavations and restoration work.