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Archives & excavations : essays on the history of archaeological excavations in Rome and southern Italy from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century / edited by Ilaria Bignamini ; essays by Ilaria Bignamini ... [and others]
Penn Museum Library DG65 .A755 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Archaeological monographs of the British School at Rome ; no. 14.
- Archaeological monographs of the British School at Rome ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Rome--History.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy, Southern--History.
- Antiquities.
- History.
- Rome (Italy)--Antiquities.
- Rome (Italy).
- Italy, Southern--Antiquities.
- Italy, Southern.
- Southern Italy.
- Italy--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
- Other Title:
- Archives and excavations
- Place of Publication:
- London : British School at Rome, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English and Italian, with some essays translated from the Italian.
- Summary:
- Archives and Excavations aims to stimulate a new approach to the history of excavation by drawing attention to a vast and important area of research that has been neglected for almost a century.
- Contents:
- Rescue archaeology in the Renaissance / Ian Campbell
- Research in the Roman catacombs by the Louvain antiquarian Philips van Winghe / Cornelis Schuddeboom
- Archaeologies, antiquaries and the Memorie of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Rome / Amanda Claridge
- Excavations, collectors and scholars in seventeenth-century Rome / Ingo Herklotz
- British excavations in the Papal States during the eighteenth-century / Ilaria Bignamini
- A painter in search of a poet : Allan Ramsay and Horace's villa, 1755-84 / Iain Gordon Brown
- Charles Townley's collection of drawing and papers : a source for eighteenth-century excavations, the market and collections / Brian F. Cook
- How antique is antique? : the restoration of mosaics for the Vatican museums / Klaus E. Werner
- Towns and tombs : three-dimensional documentation of archaeological sites in the Kingdom of Napes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Valentin Kockel
- Giacomo Boni's excavations in the Roman Forum as seen in the photographs of Thomas Ashby / Rita Turchetti
- Excavations in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 1885-1904 : analysis of the pre-existing medieval remains under the Palazzo Le Roy / Susanna Le Pera Buranelli
- Discoveries at the Scala Santa : the excavations of 1852-4 / Paolo Liverani
- The discovery of the Etruscans in the early nineteenth century : some archival documents / Ronald T. Ridley
- Excavations in Etruria in the 1880s : the case of Veii / Paolo Liverani.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 090415243X
- OCLC:
- 60396612
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