Feoli collection

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Attic drinking bowl , signed by the potter Brygos , painted by the Brygos painter , around 480 BC. Chr .; Tondo : A young symposium guest throws up, his head is held by a blonde hetaera .

The Feoli Collection is a former private collection of ancient art, which today largely belongs to the collection of antiques in the Martin von Wagner Museum in the south wing of the Würzburg Residence .

Agostino Feoli, the owner of an estate that was located in the area of ​​the necropolis (burial place) of the ancient Etruscan city ​​of Vulci , had, like many other such landowners, carried out targeted excavations on its property. A very successful first excavation season, he led from 1829 to 1831 by a second from 1846 to 1847. Unlike most other archaeologists, he did not sell the artifacts found largely but put on an own collection, which until now for him as a collection Feoli known is.

The collection was first published by Eduard Gerhard in his Rapporto Vulcente and made accessible in 1837 by the catalog Antichi vasi dipinti della collezione Feoli , written by Secondiamo Campanari . Feoli sold some pieces, others he exchanged in later years or acquired new pieces. Therefore, the origin of the pieces that were not listed in the 1837 catalog is not always certain. At times the collection was thought to be lost. Heinrich Brunn found it again in Rome in 1865 and brought it back to academic consciousness.

The heirs were initially able to keep the collection together after Feoli's death, but in 1872 they had such financial difficulties that they had to sell the collection quickly and not necessarily at the highest price. The Würzburg antiquarian Ludwig von Urlichs became aware of this through the mediation of Wolfgang Helbig , who was in Rome at Easter of the year. With the help of telegraphy , which was still comparatively new at the time , he transmitted the information to Bavaria and quickly convinced the Bavarian Ministry of Education, headed by Minister Johann von Lutz and University Advisor Völk, to fund the collection with the help of the income from a legacy of the art agent and painter Johann, which was intended for such cases Martin von Wagner for the Würzburg collection. It was more difficult to convince the university senate. There were voices who thought a purchase was unnecessary, as the Wagner estate and several subsequent acquisitions already resulted in an important collection. Other reviewers criticized that there was no meaningful space for accommodation. Correctly, it was originally planned to use the proceeds from Wagner's inheritance to initially build up reserves to finance the construction of a future museum. The decisive meeting, in which the possible allocation of funds should be decided, took place, according to later accounts, on a humid and hot afternoon during the semester break. It is only thanks to a speech by Felix Dahn that the Senate was persuaded and released the corresponding funds for the acquisition of the last large collection of this kind in private hands in Italy. The purchase contract was signed on May 7, 1872, and 26,500 lire were paid for the collection. Initially, von Urlichs had financed the collection by selling the securities from his wife's dowry , which she resented for the rest of his life. The packaging and transfer of the collection to Würzburg was supervised by Urlichs and his pupil Adam Flasch . By the end of the year Urlichs had not only set up the vases in the collection's premises, but had also published a catalog of the collection. It was the last major acquisition by the Würzburg Antikensammlung for a good 20 years.

With the Feoli collection, the Martin von Wagner Museum's antiquities collection suddenly came into the possession of around 480 others, especially in the period between 530 and 480 BC. Ancient, primarily Greek, but also Etruscan vases, which can be dated to BC . With the Feoli Collection as its centerpiece, Würzburg now houses the third largest collection of vases in Germany after the Berlin Collection of Antiquities and the State Collection of Antiquities in Munich . After a vase from the collection Feoli was John Beazley of Etruscan Feoli painter with his provisional names named.

  • Etruscan - red-figure beaked jug ; Belly picture: Two women working with wool. Neck picture: Bare woman with alabastron in hand sitting on a rock; around 350/25 BC Chr.

  • Etruscan pseudo red-figure amphora of the Praxias group , which probably had its workshop in Vulci; one coat youth on each side ; around 480/50 BC Chr.

  • Etruscan black-figure amphora; Belly image: Athena with a team of four , shoulder image: Aphrodite , as an Etruscan Turan , as often depicted with wings, puts her cloak protectively over Aeneas ; around 470 BC Chr.

  • Etruscan Impasto jug with owner's inscription MI HUSTILEIA incised in Greek letters ; around 700/675 BC Chr .; Burned brightly in a fire in 1945.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Heinrich Bulle : The Martin von Wagner Museum . In: Max Buchner (editor): From the past of the University of Würzburg. Festschrift for the 350th anniversary of the university. Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 1932, p. 140