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].

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : British School at Rome, 2004.

Description:

xxiii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

Archaeological monographs of the British School at Rome ; 14

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English and Italian, with some essays translated from the Italian.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

090415243X (paperback)
9780904152432 (paperback)

Subject:

Excavations (Archaeology) Italy Rome History.
Excavations (Archaeology) Italy, Southern History.
Fouilles (Archéologie) Italie Rome Histoire.
Fouilles (Archéologie) Italie Mezzogiorno Histoire.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Ausgrabung
Opgravingen.
Excavations (Archaeology) Italy Rome.
Excavations (Archaeology) Italy, Southern.
Rome (Italy) Antiquities.
Italy, Southern Antiquities.
Rome (Italie) Antiquités.
Mezzogiorno (Italie) Antiquités.
Italy Rome.
Southern Italy.
Rom Region

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Bignamini, Ilaria, 1952-2001, editor.
Archaeological monographs of the British School at Rome ; no. 14.

Archives and excavations

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245514
Call No.: DG65 .A7 2004
Status: Available

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