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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS (ONGOING) by Ulf R. Hansson

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This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Rom... more This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Roman Campagna in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Special focus is on developments during the early decades of the eighteenth century which culminated in the high profile «proto-archaeological» excavations of imperial palaces on the Palatine, of tombs and columbaria along the via Appia, and of villas in the Campagna and other projects. Many of these latter projects were carried out in the 1720s. Although modern judgment of such early field investigations has been mostly negative, historians of antiquarianism and ar¬chaeology have recently recognised the pioneering work that was in fact at times being done here by some of the excavators, sponsors, artists and scholars involved. Especially the visual documentation of archaeological contexts and finds has at¬tracted much interest lately for its relative precision and detail. Rather than focus on these already well-known excavations alone, the aim of this holistic study is to trace and analyse contextually the strategic positioning and interaction of a number of so-called «instrumental actors», both within the local antiquarian community and among its Italian and foreign correspondents, and to emphasise the collective aspects of knowledge production; to look at significant shifts in the approaches to and use of material and visual culture, as exemplified by collecting and collections, visual and textual documentation, correspondence and publications. Among the actors operating in these dynamic clusters in Rome and within larger networks can be mentioned Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729), Francesco de’ Ficoroni (1664-1747), Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755), Gaetano Piccini (active 1702-1740), Filippo Antonio Gualterio (1660-1728), Alessandro Gregorio Capponi (1683-1746), Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), Melchior de Polignac (1661-1742) and Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), but the list is long. The project will result in a monograph.

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This study is a much expanded and updated version of my PhD dissertation (Gothenburg 2005) which ... more This study is a much expanded and updated version of my PhD dissertation (Gothenburg 2005) which concerned the late Etrusco-Italic glyptic production, especially the so-called
a globolo and related scarab gems. The new comprehensive study traces and examines the production and use(s) of engraved gems and seal stones in Central and Southern Italy from the early circulation of imported works, the establishment of immigrant (East Greek) engravers in Etruria and the South, and the development of local workshops in the second half of the sixth century BCE, down to the end of the Etruscan, Italic and South Italian production and the establishment of Roman Republican production centres. The holistic study includes an extensive survey of find contexts and other available archaeological data plus new typological and iconographical analyses. The appended list of items in the surviving corpus of gems in public, corporate and private collections updates and adds about 55% new material to earlier Gesamtkatalogen, notably those of Zazoff (1968), Martini (1971), Krauskopf (1995) and Giovanelli (2015).

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Books by Ulf R. Hansson

Edited Volumes by Ulf R. Hansson

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eds U.R. Hansson, J. Roberts, K. Sheppard & J. Trigg, Manchester: Manchester University Press 2020, 2020

The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and ... more The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed within the context of negotiation, cooperation and exchange, as the collaborative effort of groups, clusters and communities of scholars. Shifting focus from the individual scholar to the wider social contexts of her work, this volume investigates the importance of informal networks and conversation in the creation of knowledge about the past, and takes a closer look at the dynamic interaction and exchange that takes place between individuals, groups and clusters of scholars in the wider social settings of scientific work. Various aspects of and mechanisms at work behind the interaction and exchange that takes place between the individual scholar and her community, and the creative processes that such encounters trigger, are critically examined in eleven chapters which draw on a wide spectrum of examples from Europe and North America: from early modern antiquarians to archaeological societies and practitioners at work during the formative years of the modern archaeological disciplines and more recent examples from the twentieth century. The individual chapters engage with theoretical approaches to scientific creativity, knowledge production and interaction such as sociology and geographies of science, and actor-network theory (ANT) in their examination of individual–collective interplay. The book caters to readers both from within and outside the archaeological disciplines; primarily intended for researchers, teachers and students in archaeology, anthropology, classics and the history of science, it will also be of interest to the general reader.

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eds Ulf R. Hansson, Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard & Jonathan Trigg. Special issue of Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, Nov. 2016 , 2016

This collection of papers reflects the primary purpose of the Histories of Archaeology Research N... more This collection of papers reflects the primary purpose of the Histories of Archaeology Research Network (HARN) – to demonstrate that there are many histories of archaeology rather than one overarching masculist narrative. HARN encourages historians and archaeologists to examine the discipline of archaeology in various ways. Each method can explain a missing piece of a complex history of science. Therefore the collection presented for publication demonstrates the wide range of the history of the discipline of archaeology, both chronologically and geographically, and the exciting potential for analysis, narrative, and debate. The arguments presented here encompass several distinct but interconnecting themes, all presented by members of HARN. Bucolo and Dixon examine the history of archaeology in Roman institutions. Barber, Wickstead, and Lewis deal with seemingly disparate histories—aerial archaeology, barrow excavation, social networks, and inaugural lectures. However, the histories of archaeology are just that, different methods of doing history of a particular scientific practice. Barnes and Aricanli and Snead analyze the history of archaeology in the Americas. These articles discuss the social and disciplinary implications of actual archaeological practice. There are, again, many ways to consider disparate field practices within our framework. Finally, Siapkas focuses on craniometry and how measuring skulls can be extremely political and aid in institutional racism. The special collection has been edited by Ulf Hansson, Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard and Jonathan Trigg.

Book Chapters by Ulf R. Hansson

in P. Golyzniak (ed.), Philipp von Stosch, Collecting, Drawing, Studying and Publishing of Engraved Gems, vol. 1, Philipp von Stosch, Engraved Gems and the Development of Antiquarianism, Berlin and Leiden 2024

in P. Golyzniak (ed.), Philipp von Stosch, Collecting, Drawing, Studying and Publishing of Engraved Gems, vol. 1, Philipp von Stosch, Engraved Gems and the Development of Antiquarianism, Berlin and Leiden 2024

Von Joachim I. zu Winckelmann. Bibliotheken zwischen Humanismus und Aufklärung, ed. B. Heinecke & V. Riedel, Halle: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen Anhalt 2024, 567-618., 2024

This book chapter discusses the substantial library holdings of the German collector, connoisseur... more This book chapter discusses the substantial library holdings of the German collector, connoisseur and diplomat of sorts, Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757). Described as a key toehold for the Radical Enlightenment in Italy, the famous Bibliotheca Stoschiana attracted considerable interest not only from antiquarian and letterati communities in Rome and Florence, where Stosch was active from the early 1720s until his death in 1757, but also from the Inquisition for its large holdings of controversial books and titles listed in the pope’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Stosch was involved in the establishment of the first and short-lived masonic lodge in Florence in 1733. He and especially his library figured prominently in the interrogation and trial documents of the Inquisition in relation to the shutdown of the lodge following the papal bulla of 1738 and the imprisonment of its secretary, Tommaso Crudeli (1702-1745). A native of Küstrin in Brandenburg, Stosch had studied theology and had travelled widely in Northern Eu¬rope and Italy in his youth. Over the years he managed to build a wide and considerable network of highly useful contacts which included royalty and popes, statesmen, cardinals and notable members of the Republic of Letters. During long sojourns in The Hague and London in the 1710s, Stosch, a deist and freethinker, became involved with the Chevaliers de Jubilation and moved the circles of John Toland and the ‘radical Huguenot côterie’, i e the artist Bernard Picart and the bibliographers Prosper Marchand and Charles Levier. He kept in contact with these circles after settling permanently in Rome in 1722, and built a considerable collection of books on theology and philosophy, taking a special interest in Spinoza. Most famous as a connoisseur and antiquary however, Stosch had established himself in learned circles with a book on engraved gems signed by ancient engravers, illustrated and published in Amsterdam in 1724 by Picart. This interest was sparked during a visit to Paris in 1712, when he met and befriended Montfaucon, Baudelot de Dairval, Anselmo Banduri, Jean-Paul Bignon, Pierre Crozat and others. Stosch was an avid collector of many things, coins, gems, antiquities, paintings, drawings and prints, maps, erotica, arms and armour, and naturalia—areas that were all reflected in his rich library which was already considerable before he settled in Italy. This first library remained in the Netherlands until 1739, when Stosch sent for it. He was then residing in voluntary exile in Florence, as a nightly assault on his carriage in January 1731 had made him leave Rome. In Florence, the Bibliotheca Stoschiana became an intersecting point for various overlapping European networks. The holdings were continuously expanded with the help of contacts and booksellers in Italy and the North such as Marchand, Levier, Caspar Fritch, Pieter Boudewijnsz van der Aa, Bernardo Paperini, Giuseppe Rigacci and Antonio Ristori. The chapter discusses the contents of the library, its significance for learned circles in Rome and Florence, its sale and dispersion after Stosch’s death, as well as its afterlife and later controversies.

in eds. P. Hatlie & D. Berry, Ancient Bovillae: History, Art, and Archaeology of a Lost City in the Roman Hinterland, University of Michigan Press [forthcoming 2022], 2022

This book chapter discusses antiquarian and proto-archaeological activity in Rome and the Roman C... more This book chapter discusses antiquarian and proto-archaeological activity in Rome and the Roman Campagna in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first part traces and discusses more generally early field activity in and around the city and especially along the first stretch of the via Appia, from the Porta Capena in the Servian Wall to Bovillae at the twelfth milestone, by excavators ranging from Francesco Bianchini (columbaria of the freedmen of Livia and Augustus), Francesco de’ Ficoroni (Vigna Moroni) and Alessandro Albani (Anzio) early in the eighteenth century, to Thomas Jenkins (Centocelle, Quadraro), Gavin Hamilton (Pantanello, Villa of the Settebassi), Robert Fagan (tomb of Claudia Semne, Campo Iemini) and Venceslao and Pietro Pezzoli (Statuario/Villa dei Quintili) in the second half of the century, to Antonio Nibby (villa of Maxentius) and others in the early nineteenth century. It also discusses in depth the cultural heritage legislation of the Papal State and its supervising body, papal and private collecting, restoration, export and the art and antiquities market. The second part focuses on the Frattocchie area between the eleventh and twelfth milestone of the Appia Antica, especially the site of Bovillae and its rediscovery, documentation and partial destruction over the course of the nineteenth century. Sketching briefly the early field investigations of Robert Fagan in the area, at Grotta Vascella and on other lands belonging to the Colonna family, it moves on to the discovery, identification and documentation of the remains of the ancient site of Bovillae by Giuseppe Tambroni, Luigi Poletti and their team in the 1820s. The chapter ends with a brief outline of the successive destruction of the unearthed ancient structures and sections of the ancient Roman road, and of the documentary work carried out by Luigi Canina and Pietro Rosa in the early 1850s.

in Marcello Fagiolo & Alessandro Mazza (eds), I Monti Parioli e il “Nuovo Campo Marzio” della ricreazione e della cultura (I Colli di Roma), Roma: Artemide & Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l'immagine di Roma, 2022

Anton Maria Zanetti (1680-1767). Lettere artistiche del Settecento Veneziano, ed. Marina Magrini, Venezia: Fondazione Cini, pp. 59-69, 2022

This book chapter contextualises and discusses what is left of the correspondence between the art... more This book chapter contextualises and discusses what is left of the correspondence between the artist, collector and dealer, Count Anton Maria Zanetti di Girolamo, or Zanetti the Elder (1680-1767) and the German connoisseur and collector, Baron Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), active in Rome from 1715 to 1717 and 1722 to 1731, and in Florence from 1731 to his death in 1757. Only one letter, dated 3 October 1733, survives of their correspondence, but there is good reason to assume that the two kept in contact—at least intermittently—over the years. There are also indications that they met in person, at least once in Venice where Zanetti resided. Both Stosch and Zanetti operated as art agents and dealers and had several contacts in common among the more prominent European collectors of the period such as Philippe d’Orléans and Pierre Crozat in France, and Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle and Sir Andrew Fountaine in Britain. Notably they shared a genuine interest in ancient engraved gems, which they both collected. Stosch had early positioned himself as a leading expert in this field, which at the time was at the very heart of antiquarian interest, by publishing a fully illustrated systematic study of gems signed by ancient engravers (Gemmae antiquae caelatae / Pierres antiques gravées, Amsterdam: Bernard Picart 1724). A second volume was advertised, but never appeared. Zanetti, who was a skilled draughtsman, contributed at least one drawing of a gem to Stosch’s book project. Stosch collected thousands of such drawings for his project from several contemporary artists, but the collection was dispersed after his death and Zanetti may have supplied Stosch with other drawings of gems as well. Stosch, who had developed “a reputation” in Rome for training artists in the difficult art of careful visual documentation of gems, antiques and ancient monuments, was hard to impress and generally highly critical of the more or less inaccurate illustrations that the artists of the period produced, whether of ancient gems, medals, sculpture or frescoes. Zanetti, whose gem collection was published by Anton Francesco Gori in 1750 (Stosch’s was published by Winckelmann in 1760), owned several items that must have interested Stosch, especially the famous Antinous gem, now in the Getty Museum. He also owned three curious intaglios inscribed with names believed to be of famous ancient engravers that Stosch wanted to include in his project on signed gems: TEYKPOY, Teukros, and △IOC, abbr. for Dioskourides, both active in Rome towards the end of the first century BCE. So the two had reason to stay in touch. Using the content of the preserved letter as point of departure, the chapter discusses Zanetti’s and Stosch’s converging interests and projects.

"Mehr Licht", more light, più luce. Studia in honorem Arja Karivieri, eds. K. Mustakallio, M. Silver & S. Örmä. Åbo/Turku: Sigillum, 57-72. ISBN 978-952-7220-17-7

in eds. S. Bracken & A. Turpin, Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the USA 1550-1950, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, Chapter 6, 113-128.

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This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Rom... more This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Roman Campagna in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Special focus is on developments during the early decades of the eighteenth century which culminated in the high profile «proto-archaeological» excavations of imperial palaces on the Palatine, of tombs and columbaria along the via Appia, and of villas in the Campagna and other projects. Many of these latter projects were carried out in the 1720s. Although modern judgment of such early field investigations has been mostly negative, historians of antiquarianism and ar¬chaeology have recently recognised the pioneering work that was in fact at times being done here by some of the excavators, sponsors, artists and scholars involved. Especially the visual documentation of archaeological contexts and finds has at¬tracted much interest lately for its relative precision and detail. Rather than focus on these already well-known excavations alone, the aim of this holistic study is to trace and analyse contextually the strategic positioning and interaction of a number of so-called «instrumental actors», both within the local antiquarian community and among its Italian and foreign correspondents, and to emphasise the collective aspects of knowledge production; to look at significant shifts in the approaches to and use of material and visual culture, as exemplified by collecting and collections, visual and textual documentation, correspondence and publications. Among the actors operating in these dynamic clusters in Rome and within larger networks can be mentioned Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729), Francesco de’ Ficoroni (1664-1747), Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755), Gaetano Piccini (active 1702-1740), Filippo Antonio Gualterio (1660-1728), Alessandro Gregorio Capponi (1683-1746), Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), Melchior de Polignac (1661-1742) and Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), but the list is long. The project will result in a monograph.

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This study is a much expanded and updated version of my PhD dissertation (Gothenburg 2005) which ... more This study is a much expanded and updated version of my PhD dissertation (Gothenburg 2005) which concerned the late Etrusco-Italic glyptic production, especially the so-called
a globolo and related scarab gems. The new comprehensive study traces and examines the production and use(s) of engraved gems and seal stones in Central and Southern Italy from the early circulation of imported works, the establishment of immigrant (East Greek) engravers in Etruria and the South, and the development of local workshops in the second half of the sixth century BCE, down to the end of the Etruscan, Italic and South Italian production and the establishment of Roman Republican production centres. The holistic study includes an extensive survey of find contexts and other available archaeological data plus new typological and iconographical analyses. The appended list of items in the surviving corpus of gems in public, corporate and private collections updates and adds about 55% new material to earlier Gesamtkatalogen, notably those of Zazoff (1968), Martini (1971), Krauskopf (1995) and Giovanelli (2015).

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eds U.R. Hansson, J. Roberts, K. Sheppard & J. Trigg, Manchester: Manchester University Press 2020, 2020

The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and ... more The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed within the context of negotiation, cooperation and exchange, as the collaborative effort of groups, clusters and communities of scholars. Shifting focus from the individual scholar to the wider social contexts of her work, this volume investigates the importance of informal networks and conversation in the creation of knowledge about the past, and takes a closer look at the dynamic interaction and exchange that takes place between individuals, groups and clusters of scholars in the wider social settings of scientific work. Various aspects of and mechanisms at work behind the interaction and exchange that takes place between the individual scholar and her community, and the creative processes that such encounters trigger, are critically examined in eleven chapters which draw on a wide spectrum of examples from Europe and North America: from early modern antiquarians to archaeological societies and practitioners at work during the formative years of the modern archaeological disciplines and more recent examples from the twentieth century. The individual chapters engage with theoretical approaches to scientific creativity, knowledge production and interaction such as sociology and geographies of science, and actor-network theory (ANT) in their examination of individual–collective interplay. The book caters to readers both from within and outside the archaeological disciplines; primarily intended for researchers, teachers and students in archaeology, anthropology, classics and the history of science, it will also be of interest to the general reader.

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eds Ulf R. Hansson, Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard & Jonathan Trigg. Special issue of Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, Nov. 2016 , 2016

This collection of papers reflects the primary purpose of the Histories of Archaeology Research N... more This collection of papers reflects the primary purpose of the Histories of Archaeology Research Network (HARN) – to demonstrate that there are many histories of archaeology rather than one overarching masculist narrative. HARN encourages historians and archaeologists to examine the discipline of archaeology in various ways. Each method can explain a missing piece of a complex history of science. Therefore the collection presented for publication demonstrates the wide range of the history of the discipline of archaeology, both chronologically and geographically, and the exciting potential for analysis, narrative, and debate. The arguments presented here encompass several distinct but interconnecting themes, all presented by members of HARN. Bucolo and Dixon examine the history of archaeology in Roman institutions. Barber, Wickstead, and Lewis deal with seemingly disparate histories—aerial archaeology, barrow excavation, social networks, and inaugural lectures. However, the histories of archaeology are just that, different methods of doing history of a particular scientific practice. Barnes and Aricanli and Snead analyze the history of archaeology in the Americas. These articles discuss the social and disciplinary implications of actual archaeological practice. There are, again, many ways to consider disparate field practices within our framework. Finally, Siapkas focuses on craniometry and how measuring skulls can be extremely political and aid in institutional racism. The special collection has been edited by Ulf Hansson, Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard and Jonathan Trigg.

in P. Golyzniak (ed.), Philipp von Stosch, Collecting, Drawing, Studying and Publishing of Engraved Gems, vol. 1, Philipp von Stosch, Engraved Gems and the Development of Antiquarianism, Berlin and Leiden 2024

in P. Golyzniak (ed.), Philipp von Stosch, Collecting, Drawing, Studying and Publishing of Engraved Gems, vol. 1, Philipp von Stosch, Engraved Gems and the Development of Antiquarianism, Berlin and Leiden 2024

Von Joachim I. zu Winckelmann. Bibliotheken zwischen Humanismus und Aufklärung, ed. B. Heinecke & V. Riedel, Halle: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen Anhalt 2024, 567-618., 2024

This book chapter discusses the substantial library holdings of the German collector, connoisseur... more This book chapter discusses the substantial library holdings of the German collector, connoisseur and diplomat of sorts, Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757). Described as a key toehold for the Radical Enlightenment in Italy, the famous Bibliotheca Stoschiana attracted considerable interest not only from antiquarian and letterati communities in Rome and Florence, where Stosch was active from the early 1720s until his death in 1757, but also from the Inquisition for its large holdings of controversial books and titles listed in the pope’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Stosch was involved in the establishment of the first and short-lived masonic lodge in Florence in 1733. He and especially his library figured prominently in the interrogation and trial documents of the Inquisition in relation to the shutdown of the lodge following the papal bulla of 1738 and the imprisonment of its secretary, Tommaso Crudeli (1702-1745). A native of Küstrin in Brandenburg, Stosch had studied theology and had travelled widely in Northern Eu¬rope and Italy in his youth. Over the years he managed to build a wide and considerable network of highly useful contacts which included royalty and popes, statesmen, cardinals and notable members of the Republic of Letters. During long sojourns in The Hague and London in the 1710s, Stosch, a deist and freethinker, became involved with the Chevaliers de Jubilation and moved the circles of John Toland and the ‘radical Huguenot côterie’, i e the artist Bernard Picart and the bibliographers Prosper Marchand and Charles Levier. He kept in contact with these circles after settling permanently in Rome in 1722, and built a considerable collection of books on theology and philosophy, taking a special interest in Spinoza. Most famous as a connoisseur and antiquary however, Stosch had established himself in learned circles with a book on engraved gems signed by ancient engravers, illustrated and published in Amsterdam in 1724 by Picart. This interest was sparked during a visit to Paris in 1712, when he met and befriended Montfaucon, Baudelot de Dairval, Anselmo Banduri, Jean-Paul Bignon, Pierre Crozat and others. Stosch was an avid collector of many things, coins, gems, antiquities, paintings, drawings and prints, maps, erotica, arms and armour, and naturalia—areas that were all reflected in his rich library which was already considerable before he settled in Italy. This first library remained in the Netherlands until 1739, when Stosch sent for it. He was then residing in voluntary exile in Florence, as a nightly assault on his carriage in January 1731 had made him leave Rome. In Florence, the Bibliotheca Stoschiana became an intersecting point for various overlapping European networks. The holdings were continuously expanded with the help of contacts and booksellers in Italy and the North such as Marchand, Levier, Caspar Fritch, Pieter Boudewijnsz van der Aa, Bernardo Paperini, Giuseppe Rigacci and Antonio Ristori. The chapter discusses the contents of the library, its significance for learned circles in Rome and Florence, its sale and dispersion after Stosch’s death, as well as its afterlife and later controversies.

in eds. P. Hatlie & D. Berry, Ancient Bovillae: History, Art, and Archaeology of a Lost City in the Roman Hinterland, University of Michigan Press [forthcoming 2022], 2022

This book chapter discusses antiquarian and proto-archaeological activity in Rome and the Roman C... more This book chapter discusses antiquarian and proto-archaeological activity in Rome and the Roman Campagna in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first part traces and discusses more generally early field activity in and around the city and especially along the first stretch of the via Appia, from the Porta Capena in the Servian Wall to Bovillae at the twelfth milestone, by excavators ranging from Francesco Bianchini (columbaria of the freedmen of Livia and Augustus), Francesco de’ Ficoroni (Vigna Moroni) and Alessandro Albani (Anzio) early in the eighteenth century, to Thomas Jenkins (Centocelle, Quadraro), Gavin Hamilton (Pantanello, Villa of the Settebassi), Robert Fagan (tomb of Claudia Semne, Campo Iemini) and Venceslao and Pietro Pezzoli (Statuario/Villa dei Quintili) in the second half of the century, to Antonio Nibby (villa of Maxentius) and others in the early nineteenth century. It also discusses in depth the cultural heritage legislation of the Papal State and its supervising body, papal and private collecting, restoration, export and the art and antiquities market. The second part focuses on the Frattocchie area between the eleventh and twelfth milestone of the Appia Antica, especially the site of Bovillae and its rediscovery, documentation and partial destruction over the course of the nineteenth century. Sketching briefly the early field investigations of Robert Fagan in the area, at Grotta Vascella and on other lands belonging to the Colonna family, it moves on to the discovery, identification and documentation of the remains of the ancient site of Bovillae by Giuseppe Tambroni, Luigi Poletti and their team in the 1820s. The chapter ends with a brief outline of the successive destruction of the unearthed ancient structures and sections of the ancient Roman road, and of the documentary work carried out by Luigi Canina and Pietro Rosa in the early 1850s.

in Marcello Fagiolo & Alessandro Mazza (eds), I Monti Parioli e il “Nuovo Campo Marzio” della ricreazione e della cultura (I Colli di Roma), Roma: Artemide & Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l'immagine di Roma, 2022

Anton Maria Zanetti (1680-1767). Lettere artistiche del Settecento Veneziano, ed. Marina Magrini, Venezia: Fondazione Cini, pp. 59-69, 2022

This book chapter contextualises and discusses what is left of the correspondence between the art... more This book chapter contextualises and discusses what is left of the correspondence between the artist, collector and dealer, Count Anton Maria Zanetti di Girolamo, or Zanetti the Elder (1680-1767) and the German connoisseur and collector, Baron Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), active in Rome from 1715 to 1717 and 1722 to 1731, and in Florence from 1731 to his death in 1757. Only one letter, dated 3 October 1733, survives of their correspondence, but there is good reason to assume that the two kept in contact—at least intermittently—over the years. There are also indications that they met in person, at least once in Venice where Zanetti resided. Both Stosch and Zanetti operated as art agents and dealers and had several contacts in common among the more prominent European collectors of the period such as Philippe d’Orléans and Pierre Crozat in France, and Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle and Sir Andrew Fountaine in Britain. Notably they shared a genuine interest in ancient engraved gems, which they both collected. Stosch had early positioned himself as a leading expert in this field, which at the time was at the very heart of antiquarian interest, by publishing a fully illustrated systematic study of gems signed by ancient engravers (Gemmae antiquae caelatae / Pierres antiques gravées, Amsterdam: Bernard Picart 1724). A second volume was advertised, but never appeared. Zanetti, who was a skilled draughtsman, contributed at least one drawing of a gem to Stosch’s book project. Stosch collected thousands of such drawings for his project from several contemporary artists, but the collection was dispersed after his death and Zanetti may have supplied Stosch with other drawings of gems as well. Stosch, who had developed “a reputation” in Rome for training artists in the difficult art of careful visual documentation of gems, antiques and ancient monuments, was hard to impress and generally highly critical of the more or less inaccurate illustrations that the artists of the period produced, whether of ancient gems, medals, sculpture or frescoes. Zanetti, whose gem collection was published by Anton Francesco Gori in 1750 (Stosch’s was published by Winckelmann in 1760), owned several items that must have interested Stosch, especially the famous Antinous gem, now in the Getty Museum. He also owned three curious intaglios inscribed with names believed to be of famous ancient engravers that Stosch wanted to include in his project on signed gems: TEYKPOY, Teukros, and △IOC, abbr. for Dioskourides, both active in Rome towards the end of the first century BCE. So the two had reason to stay in touch. Using the content of the preserved letter as point of departure, the chapter discusses Zanetti’s and Stosch’s converging interests and projects.

"Mehr Licht", more light, più luce. Studia in honorem Arja Karivieri, eds. K. Mustakallio, M. Silver & S. Örmä. Åbo/Turku: Sigillum, 57-72. ISBN 978-952-7220-17-7

in eds. S. Bracken & A. Turpin, Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the USA 1550-1950, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, Chapter 6, 113-128.

in ed. M.C. Cola, Mostrare il sapere: biblioteche, camerini, studioli e raccolte antiche tra Barocco e primo Settecento (Dentro il palazzo), Città del Vaticano: Edizioni Musei Vaticani 2022, 45-68

in eds. U.R. Hansson, J. Roberts, K.M. Sheppard & J. Trigg Communities and Knowledge Production in Archaeology, Manchester: Manchester UP 2020, 128-147, 2020

in ed. A. Bober, The Collections, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin. Austin: UT Press 2016, pp. 194-205

in ed. J. Swaddling, An Etruscan Affair: The Impact of Early Etruscan Discoveries on European Culture (British Museum Research Publication 211), London: British Museum Press 2018, pp. 83-93. ISBN-13: 978-0861592111 ISBN-10: 0861592115, 2018

ABSTRACT: This book chapter considers the interest in Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery in the... more ABSTRACT: This book chapter considers the interest in Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori and others in Florence in the heyday of the Etruscan Revival, to the complete re-systematization of the Etruscan glyptic material by Adolf Furtwängler at the turn of the century 1900. It also discusses the interesting cultural phenomenon of the dactyliothecae (gem cast cabinets), amateur and commercial serial-production of gem impressions and gem casts in various materials, and the re-use and imitation of Etruscan gems and goldwork in the so-called “archaeological jewellery” produced by the Castellani and other workshops.

in ed. U.R. Hansson, Classical Archaeology in the Late Nineteenth Century, The Formative Period 1870-1914 [forthcoming], 2022

Adolf Furtwängler’s Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum... more Adolf Furtwängler’s Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum (1900) is a monumental three-volume history of ancient gem-engraving spanning three millennia and several cultural spheres, from the late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. Published at a time when the field of gem studies was considered highly problematic and more or less a minefield for any serious scholar and collector, it represents a comprehensive restructuring of the whole preserved corpus of ancient engraved gems and cameos based on new typological and stylistic criteria which Furtwängler developed and applied systematically in order to facilitate classification and distinguish ancient originals from the numerous modern copies and fakes that had undermined collecting and study for generations. Although this classification system was in no way foolproof, Furtwänger’s ambitious undertaking which took over a decade to complete provided a solid foundation for later research to build on which has proven remarkably successful and enduring. Furtwängler’s French colleague Ernest Babelon’s prophecy that it would become a reference work for the next century—the twentieth—has in some ways proved to be still valid in the twenty-first: the impact of Furtwängler’s substantial contribution to this field of study is evident in more or less all of the catalogues of larger public and private collections published over the past 120 years. Its significance, not only for the study of gems but as a sort of ancient cultural history, was fully understood by contemporary reviewers of the publication, soon canonized as one of the discipline’s great classics and establishing its author as the doyen he always aspired to be. Favourably received, the work was not seen as provocative or controversial like Furtwängler’s earlier study of masterpieces of Greek sculpture through Roman copies, Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik (1893), and the reviewers were undivided in their praise. But there were not many colleagues around who were competent enough to adequately assess the achievement. It has been estimated that Furtwängler examined up to sixty thousand gems in original over the more than fifteen years he worked on this project, visiting most of the major public and private collections in Europe and the US and establishing direct relations with curators, private collectors and dealers who provided him with all the information he required. This chapter, which is based on unpublished archive material such as annotated manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and cast collections, discusses the state of gem studies as a field of study in the second half of the nineteenth century. It proceeds to consider some of the motives behind Furtwängler’s choice of study material, and shows how his work was carefully planned and systematically carried out according to this initial plan. It reconsiders the published work critically and in detail, as well as its long and complex reception within the scholarly community. It finally discusses the question whether or not Furtwängler succeeded in reviving this field of study, which was once a core antiquarian practice and at the heart of scholarly and popular interest.

in ed. J. MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan World, (Routledge Worlds), London & New York: Routledge 2013, pp. 977-991, Jul 1, 2013

in eds. F. Faegersten, J. Wallensten & I. Östenberg, Tankemönster: En festskrift till Eva Rystedt, Lund 2010, pp. 92-101.

Written for a Festschrift to honor the Swedish archaeologist Eva Rystedt, this essay is about the... more Written for a Festschrift to honor the Swedish archaeologist Eva Rystedt, this essay is about the highly interesting eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae (cabinets with casts of ancient and neoclassical engraved gems). It outlines the history of collecting and scholarship, with special focus on the work of Dresden-based antiquary Philipp Daniel Lippert (1702-1785) and his widely influential Dactyliothecae Universalis and various other editions and supplements, published between 1753 and 1776. Other manufacturers, collectors and scholars discussed include Philipp von Stosch, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Christian Dehn, Bartolomeo & Pietro Paoletti, Johannes Wiedewelt, James Tassie and others.

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in ed. V. Kockel, Daktyliothek.de, (Universität Augsburg), trans. Jorun Rebekka Ruppel. Publication date 12 February 2015

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in eds. P. Zamarchi Grassi & G.M. Scarpellini, Castiglion Fiorentino: Tesori ritrovati. Reperti archeologici etruschi rinvenuti nel territorio di Castiglion Fiorentino dal sec. XVIII ad oggi, (SBAT, Quaderni di biblioteca, 22,, Montepulciano: Le Balze 2002 pp. 34f. and passim

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Göteborg genom tiderna. Nedslag i stadens sociala och politiska historia, ed. J. Christensen, P. Cornell, J. Daun & M. Linde, Göteborg: Daidalos Förlag,663-682, 2021

Romhorisont. Tidskrift för föreningen Svenska Rominstitutets Vänner och Svenska Institutet i Rom, 2022

MDCCC1800 Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 3, 2014, pp. 13-31

La Torretta: Rivista della Biblioteca Comunale di Blera, nuova serie anno 2020, 4-11, 2020

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Medusa. Svensk Tidskrift för Antiken, 41:4 (2020): 2-8, 2020

A short article on Thomas Dempster's De Etruria Regali and the Etruscheria in eighteenth-century ... more A short article on Thomas Dempster's De Etruria Regali and the Etruscheria in eighteenth-century Florence written for a Swedish popular science journal

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This journal article examines and discusses critically how classical (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) ... more This journal article examines and discusses critically how classical (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) and postclassical (mainly neoclassical) engraved gems and cameos were collected, studied, classified and displayed in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, both in general and more specifically as reflected in a major unpublished dactyliotheca (gem cast cabinet) of several thousand gem casts assembled by an amateur collector, Adolf Frucht (1852-1914), in Munich, Germany. This cast cabinet, now in the collection of the Classics Department at the University of Texas at Austin, was assembled around the turn of the century 1900, thus long after the short-lived cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae was definitely over. It includes incomplete series and items from well-known eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century cast producers, notably Philipp Daniel Lippert (1702-1785) in Dresden and Bartolomeo (1758-1834) and Pietro Paoletti (1801-1847) in Rome, as well as numerous casts made by Frucht himself in various public collections in Germany over a period of around two decades. Frucht’s ambitious project to create a gigantic modern dactyliotheca representative of ancient gem-engraving as a whole was initiated using a traditional antiquarian classification system developed by the gem collector and connoisseur Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) for his own collection, and later used by Winckelmann in his catalogue of the Stosch gems (Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch, 1760). This system became widely influential as a model for how collections should be displayed and published in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was employed e.g. in Lippert’s four-volume Dactyliotheca Universalis (1755-76) and two-volume Dactyliothec (1767). But at a crucial point in his work process, Frucht decided to abandon the Stosch-Winckelmann system and restructure his material after new criteria recently developed by the archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) in his three-volume publication Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum (1900). This pioneering work was published when Furtwängler was professor of archaeology and director of the antiquities collections in Munich, and there is a direct link between the two men, the amateur and the professional, as well as close links to a circle of private collectors in the city grouped around Furtwängler. But Frucht’s work was cut short by his unexpected death in 1914, leaving his reclassification work and the accompanying catalogue he was compiling unfinished. His collection, preserved exactly as Frucht left it at the time of his death, offers unique insights into gem collecting at a crucial moment in the history of gem scholarship when Furtwängler revolutionized this moribund field of study, saving it from neglect and marginalization with his systematic investigations of gems carrying artists’ signatures (1888-1889), on the 12.000 gems in the Berlin collection (1896) and on the whole known preserved corpus of gems (1900). The latter study, Furtwängler’s great Gemmenbuch, presents a selection of 4.000 gems chosen from a body of more than 50.000 preserved gems that Furtwängler examined in original in all the major public and private collections in Europe and the US over the fifteen years he worked on the project. Taking as its point of departure these two principal systems of classification—the antiquarian one developed by Stosch-Winckelmann in mid-eighteenth-century Florence, and Furtwängler's complete re-systematization of the whole surviving corpus of ancient gems in the last decades of the nineteenth century—the study discusses how this field of study has evolved over the centuries, moving in and out of scholarly and popular focus. In addition to a closer examination of some instrumental scholarly publications from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth century and beyond, the study also discusses various commercial gem cast producers, notably Christian Dehn (1696-1770), Lippert, Paoletti, James Tassie (1735-1799), and Tommaso Cades (1772-c. 1850).

Antiquity, vol. 88, issue 342, 2014, Project Gallery

Hellenika, 149:3, 2014, pp. 9-12

Aristonothos: Scritti per il Mediterraneo Antico, 13:1, 2017, pp. 186-217, 2017

The European Archaeologist 40, 2013/14: 37-39

This text is about the study (and collecting) of ancient engraved gems, focusing on the work of t... more This text is about the study (and collecting) of ancient engraved gems, focusing on the work of three German scholars: Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) and Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907).

Medusa: svensk tidskrift för antiken, 2011:1, 29-34

[The Study of Etruscan Glyptic] Written in Swedish for a popular science journal, this short piec... more [The Study of Etruscan Glyptic] Written in Swedish for a popular science journal, this short piece is an outline of the history of scholarship and collecting covering the period c. 1750-2000. There are plans to translate, transform and expand the text into a longer article for an academic journal (I just never get round to it!).

Romhorisont, 49, 2008, 19-23

ABSTRACT: This short piece, written for a Swedish popular science journal, discusses the early ca... more ABSTRACT: This short piece, written for a Swedish popular science journal, discusses the early career of the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), especially his experiences as fellow of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome in the late 1870s.

International Symposium, Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, 7 December 2022

Il convegno svilupperà una riflessione globale sull'impatto delle espressioni materiali e visive ... more Il convegno svilupperà una riflessione globale sull'impatto delle espressioni materiali e visive della civiltà etrusca, dalla sua scoperta nel XV secolo fino alla fine dell’Ottocento, quando l'etruscologia si affermò come disciplina archeologica. Si tratterà di rivalutare e definire meglio le caratteristiche della cultura materiale e visiva etrusca nel processo di ricezione artistica e culturale in epoca premoderna e moderna, guardando specifi-camente allo status, ancora non ben definito, della “materialità” etrusca, cercando di evidenziare e, se necessario, abbandonare categorie storiografiche predeterminate. Il call for papers è aperto fino alla scadenza del 30 giugno 2022. Le proposte di relazioni di circa 300 parole, accompagnate da una breve nota biografica, devono essere inviate entro il 30 giugno 2022 al seguente indirizzo: convegnoalletrusca@gmail.com

The conference will develop a holistic reflection on the impact of material and visual expressio... more The conference will develop a holistic reflection on the impact of material and visual expressions of the Etruscan civilization, from its discovery in the 15th century until the end of the 19h century, when Etruscology was established as an archaeological discipline. The aim will be to re-evaluate and seek to better define the characteristics of Etruscan material and visual culture into the process of artistic and cultural reception in the early modern and modern period, by looking specifically at the status, still not quite well defined, of Etruscan materiality, by trying to highlight and, if necessary, leave behind predetermined historiographic categories.
The deadline for paper proposals is Thursday 30 June 2022.
Proposals for papers of approximately 300 words, accompanied by a brief biographical note, should be sent before 30 June 2022 to the following address : convegnoalletrusca@gmail.com

As archaeologists and historians, we depend upon archives as crucial repositories of primary and ... more As archaeologists and historians, we depend upon archives as crucial repositories of primary and secondary sources. We visit them to dive deeper into our subjects and to learn about people and events on a personal level. Not only are archives rich in unpublished sources that undoubtedly add new angles to our scholarship, but they also produce a number of curious topics that simply do not fit within the scope of our projects. The goal of this conference is to highlight the utility of archives in our work as historians and archaeologists and we hope to analyse the purpose of archives in our unique investigations while at the same time answering questions about archival research. We focus specifically on the idea of research rabbit holes. We have all fallen into these, but what subjects keep leading us astray? Or are we led astray? Does the seemingly unrelated material bring us back to our original research? We have all experienced the mischief of archives and their materials but they do not always fit in the scope of our larger research. We invite presentations that talk about and analyse the important influence archives, archival materials, and the tangents that pull us away temporarily. Papers may focus on the study of archival research as a methodology, but we will give preference to papers that allow researchers to discuss a topic that they have found interesting but that does not fit within the scope of their usual projects. We are seeking abstracts of 250 words for papers/presentations that will be no longer than 20 minutes. By August

The history of archaeology constitutes an important and steadily growing field of study. Classica... more The history of archaeology constitutes an important and steadily growing field of study. Classical archaeology or the study of the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean has a long tradition to build on, but it is only in recent decades that this long history has been the subject of more systematic critical investigation and contextual assessment that reach beyond the conventional stories of great men and their discoveries. Significant aspects and implications of the discipline are often neglected or overlooked because they are beyond the scope of these traditional histories, many of which are of course fine pieces of scholarship that have managed to reach an extraordinarily wide popular audience. This two-day conference will address various problems relating to early 20th-century Mediterranean archaeology, with special focus on the study of Greek, Etruscan and Roman cultures from the Archaic to the late Roman period and including Asia Minor, Egypt, the Near East and other regions that were once part of the Hellenistic world and/or a province of the later Roman empire. We welcome contributions that will contribute to a more balanced or holistic picture of the discipline and its various practices in the first half of the last century, including the postwar years. Proposals are invited for individual papers that deal with any aspects of the discipline (in the broadest sense) covering the period c. 1900-1950. We also welcome proposals for full sessions of 4 related papers. Topics can include, but are not limited to:  the history of excavation and publication projects  histories of individual actors, groups and/or institutions  the problem of so-called " instrumental actors " versus " common " practitioners  histories of collecting and collections  cultural heritage legislation and management  archaeological societies, congresses and exhibitions  political aspects  archaeological theory and practices  interactions between centre and periphery  wartime archaeology  popular reception To Propose a Paper: Please send a word document, with your name, institution affiliation (or note that you are an independent scholar), contact information, a paper title, and an abstract with 250 words or less. Full session proposals should contain a session abstract (max. 300 words). For proposals for full sessions, please include the titles, abstracts, authors and contact information for all 4 papers. Each paper should be no more than 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for questions (a total of 30 minutes) Proposals should be sent as word attachments to HARNgroup@googlemail.com before Friday, 22 April 2016. Please make the subject of the email " HARN conference proposal " .

EAA Annual Meeting, Glasgow 2-5 September 2015. "Communicating Archaeology" session co-organized ... more EAA Annual Meeting, Glasgow 2-5 September 2015. "Communicating Archaeology" session co-organized with Kathleen Sheppard and Julia Roberts

ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Throughout the discipline’s history, archaeologists have shared knowledge with their scholarly communities through various forms of interaction like publications, conferences, seminars, lectures, and exhibitions. These public events and the responses they provoke constitute an open scientific dialogue indispensable for the community’s accumulation and revision of collective knowledge. A key role in the processes of knowledge production preceding such public events is played by informal clusters or networks of scholars: dynamic systems of exchange loosely constituted by individuals and groups who generate and communicate knowledge and ideas both within the system and with external actors and communities.This session problematizes knowledge production and mediation in archaeology over the last 150 years, and critically examines how various informal modes of exchange between individuals and groups affect the trajectories of their public ideas about material culture and past civilizations. The papers focus on how archaeologists who have created and continue to create knowledge within their respective fields both influence and are inspired by the networks in which they operate through the more informal and private but significant exchanges that take place when they meet and talk to each other, in person or through correspondence. As a unit, the papers argue that the informal character of these gatherings inspired the generation of scientific ideas and thus affected the dynamic process of knowledge production in other but equally significant ways than knowledge produced within more formally restrained contexts. The presenters’ varying viewpoints will allow for a more holistic exploration of the instrumentality of informal clusters of actors in the production and mediation of data.

FIDEM Federation Internationale de la Médaille d'Art, XXXVII Art Medal Congress Florence 11-13 Oct. 2023

"Non con l'autorità ma col far vedere le cose". Identità e rappresentazioni nel Settecento /Identity and Representations in the Long Eighteenth-Century, International Conference, Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, 7 December 2022

Progettare il futuro, TourismA, Palazzo dei Congressi Florence 22 February [partly published as ”Questa nostra amata terra etrusca”: Due nazioni, un patrimonio culturale comune, La Torretta 2020], 2020

ABSTRACT. A popular sight for visitors to Florence around the time when Horace Walpole arrived in... more ABSTRACT. A popular sight for visitors to Florence around the time when Horace Walpole arrived in the city (1739) was a magnificent private museo, which, according to the leading antiquary of the period Anton Francesco Gori, was 'one of the great jewels of the city and a compendium of the most select museums'. Equally famous, even notorious, was the eccentric owner of these enviable collections, the elusive Baron Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757). A native of Brandenburg in Germany, the handsome and witty but penniless young Stosch had travelled widely in his early twenties. Welcomed and embraced by the rich and powerful men of the period, he had gained access — even where others before him had failed — to their closely guarded art collections and acquired an unrivalled first-hand knowledge of virtù, but especially of ancient gems, coins and medals. Operating as a diplomat, collector and art agent, Stosch managed to build an extensive personal network of contacts that included popes and cardinals, royalty, statesmen, and more or less everyone worth knowing in the Republic of Letters. In 1722 he settled permanently in Italy, where he became an oracle for collectors and instrumental in the trade in antiquities that was then emerging as a major international market. His interest in the art and material culture of the Ancients was genuine and intense, but it was also a convenient cover for his secret assignment from Robert Walpole's government to spy on the exiled Stuart court and British Jacobites in Rome. Widely respected as a connoisseur whose expertise and advice was 'often sought and seldom ignored', the brilliant but controversial Stosch blended his professional interests with more private ones, and expertly combined the worlds of antiquaria and diplomatica in which he moved with the various male homosocial subcultures that he also belonged to, blending in and moving effortlessly between high and low, gaining both powerful friends and formidable enemies, but soon also attracting the attention of the Inquisition. His undercover work as a political informant did not remain secret for very long, which made his life in Italy increasingly problematic, as did his involvement in the establishment of Italy's first masonic lodge, his large holdings of banned books listed on the pope's Index, and rumours of atheism, libertinism and open homosexuality. All of this no doubt tarnished his repute as a virtuoso, but it also added to his attraction in no small way. Stosch, who seems to have left no one who met him indifferent, Walpole included, became something of an institution, and there were a number of reasons why a steady stream of visitors continued to flock to him and his casa-museo in Rome and later Florence. His modern reception has on the whole been unfavourable, coloured by the dense and mostly negative mythology that was created around his persona already in his lifetime. He is consistently misrepresented, even in more recent scholarship: the many entertaining but wildly exaggerated and malicious anecdotes and tall tales uncritically reproduced—often with added insinuations of sexual and moral dissolution—have contributed to undermining Stosch's reputation as the serious collector and connoisseur he in fact was and to diminishing his importance in the history of collecting. What is left is often little more than a disturbing image of a greed-driven and debauched opportunist. In addition to taking a closer look at Stosch's interaction with members of the Walpole family and Horace Walpole's circle, this lecture discusses Stosch's substantial contribution to the history of collecting and examines the Museo Stoschiano as a key site for the production and transfer of antiquarian knowledge and queer culture in early eighteenth-century Rome and Florence.

ABSTRACT. Even if the widely influential German scholar and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-17... more ABSTRACT. Even if the widely influential German scholar and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), active in Rome and Florence in the first half of the eighteenth century, was in several ways instrumental in the trade in antiquities that was then emerging as a major international market, he has remained one of its most controversial, enigmatic and misrepresented—because inadequately studied—actors. In 1755, J.J. Barthélémy reported to the comte de Caylus in Paris that Stosch had “plundered” the whole of Italy, and still kept the country enchained through his many contacts. Such exaggerated and mostly malicious comments and anecdotes are numerous and should certainly not be taken literally, but they hint at a complexity that is only fragmentarily known and deserves critical examination. Through extensive travelling and association with key figures in the Republic of Letters like François Fagel, Richard Bentley, Bernard de Montfaucon, Sebastiano Bianchi, and notably Alessandro Albani, Stosch expertly positioned himself at the centre of a powerful international network which kept him exceptionally well-informed on all that was happening in the world of collecting and dealing: no notable collection remained unknown to him and no ancient artworks of any significance were discovered or changed hands without his knowledge. Stosch was able to maintain and further cultivate this extensive network during his forced exile in Florence (1731-57), where his own constantly growing “museo” in the palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo became an important meeting-point for the city’s antiquarians and foreign community, and also attracted many foreign visitors. Stosch’s close association with the British, as a spy and freemason, made him especially well-connected among British expats, grand tourists and collectors. Although knowledge of specific transactions and artworks involved is patchy, the extent and significance of Stosch’s dealing and collecting activities may be reconstructed via correspondence and his well-documented networks, where objects and information were constantly exchanged. Building on extensive archive material and contemporary sources, this paper explores Stosch’s substantial contribution to the history of collecting and his overlapping roles as scholar, collector, agent, dealer and trend-setter—especially in the field of classical and neoclassical gems, where he made a considerable and lasting impact.

ABSTRACT: This paper considers the interest in Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery in the eighte... more ABSTRACT: This paper considers the interest in Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori and others in Florence in the heyday of the Etruscheria, to the complete re-systematization of the Etruscan glyptic material by Adolf Furtwängler at the turn of the century 1900. It also discusses the interesting cultural phenomenon of the dactyliothecae (gem cast cabinets), amateur and commercial serial-production of gem impressions and gem casts in various materials, and the re-use and imitation of Etruscan gems and goldwork in the so-called “archaeological jewellery” produced by the Castellani and other workshops.

ABSTRACT: This paper examines collegiality and the instrumentality of informal networks in the pr... more ABSTRACT: This paper examines collegiality and the instrumentality of informal networks in the production of knowledge in classical archaeology around 1900 as exemplified by the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), whose pioneering work has made a deep and lasting impact in several areas of the discipline. Furtwängler suffered from bad temper and paranoid tendencies which resulted in a highly problematic work situation and strained relations not only with colleagues at work in Berlin and Munich, with whom he interacted in an often aggressive and tactless manner, but with the scholarly community at large. This is evident from his correspondence and even published works and book reviews, where unreasonably harsh judgments and downright personal attacks are not uncommon. We hear from several sources that Furtwängler was “more feared than loved”, but always respected for the quality of his work. This paper is based on a reconstruction of Furtwängler's various networks from unpublished archive material and discusses his strategies for creating and maintaining necessary relations on a professional level with colleagues and other contacts who were considered indispensable or useful for his own work. Furtwängler’s vast personal archive and extensive information channels, which encompassed an exceptionally wide international spectrum of archaeologists and art historians, museum curators, collectors, art dealers, administrators, and politicians are comparable to those of Philipp von Stosch before him and John Beazley after.

ABSTRACT: In 1724 the German expatriate Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) firmly positioned himself ... more ABSTRACT: In 1724 the German expatriate Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) firmly positioned himself in the Republic of Letters with a learned treatise on ancient engraved gems carrying artists’ signatures (1724). His own astonishing gem collection, which at the time of his death comprised 3 444 originals and pastes and 28 000 gem casts, was later published by Winckelmann and purchased by Frederick II of Prussia. Stosch’s Grand Tour lasted from 1709 to 1717, and in 1722 he moved permanently to Italy, where he settled in Rome. Over the decades, Stosch managed to build an extensive international network of contacts which included the pope, royalty, statesmen, aristocrats, clergymen and every scholar and collector of ancient art worth knowing. These connections were expertly cultivated to further his two main activities in life: antiquaria and diplomatica—Stosch collected gems, sculpture, paintings, drawings, maps, books and other things on a massive scale, but also had a side career as a British “spy”. In 1731 Stosch was forced into exile in Florence, where he became a founding member of the masonic lodge and very active in several learned societies and academies. His home in the Palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo was soon transformed into a key meeting point for the city’s antiquarians, freemasons, and foreign community, as well as for international visitors who flocked to the borgo degli Albizi to catch a glimpse of this famous—and in some circles notorious—man and admire his museo. This paper discusses grand tourism and especially the international context of “non-marrying men”, in which Stosch operated as a significant actor during his Roman and Florentine years, and which included instrumental figures like Winckelmann, Alessandro Albani, Horace Mann, Horace Walpole, Wilhelm Muzell-Stosch, Anton Francesco Gori and many others.

ABSTRACT: Several sources suggest that when the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler ... more ABSTRACT: Several sources suggest that when the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) left his position at the Berlin Museums in 1894 to become professor of archaeology and numismatics in Munich, he brought with him an impressive network of archaeologists, museum curators, collectors and dealers, and soon turned his new home town into an important caravanserai of the international trade in antiquities. He was also appointed director of four important collections in the city: the Glyptothek, the Antiquarium/vase collection, the cast collection, and the numismatic collection. Himself a serious collector and specialist on ancient sculpture and engraved gems, Furtwängler made these contacts his powerbase, offering expert advice to major museums, private collectors and dealers around the world in return for information, building one of the largest private archaeological archives in existence, with extensive photo documentation. No important ancient artworks were discovered, came on the market or changed hands without Furtwängler’s knowledge. The extensive professional network that he managed to create is comparable to those of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) before him and John Beazley (1885-1970) after. This short paper discusses the culture of professional and amateur collecting in the wake of Furtwängler’s scholarly activities in Munich and includes notable Munich collectors and agents like Paul Arndt (1865-1937) and James Loeb (1867-1933), but also Adolf Frucht (1852-1914), Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914), Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928), John Marshall (1876-1958), Michel Tyszkiewicz (1828-1897) and others.

ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) was one of the most prolific classical archaeologists of ... more ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) was one of the most prolific classical archaeologists of his time; his books on Mycenaean pottery, Olympia bronzes, Greek sculpture and engraved gems were almost immediately canonized within the scholarly community and are still considered to be among the great “classics” of the discipline. Furtwängler suffered from bad temper and paranoid tendencies resulting in a highly problematic work situation and frosty relations, not only with his colleagues in Berlin and Munich where he did most of his work, but with the scholarly community at large: we learn from several sources that Furtwängler was “more feared than loved”, even hated as a person, but always highly respected as a scholar, despite the many harsh judgments and personal attacks on colleagues that his published works contained. The preserved archive material, especially Furtwängler’s unpublished correspondence, provides valuable insights into his various strategies for building professional networks and maintaining necessary relations on a professional level with colleagues and other contacts whom he considered useful or indispensable for his own work. The comparison between the list of individuals that Furtwängler corresponded with in relation to a certain research project and the people he actually thanked in the final publication has also proved revealing and significant in the general reconstruction of Furtwängler’s work methods. His personal archive and research networks, which covered a very wide international spectrum of professional and amateur archaeologists, administrators, museum curators, collectors and art dealers, are comparable to those of Philipp von Stosch before him and John Beazley after.
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ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler’s Die antiken Gemmen (1900) is a monumental three-volume history of g... more ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler’s Die antiken Gemmen (1900) is a monumental three-volume history of gem-engraving spanning three millennia. It represents a complete restructuring of the whole preserved corpus of ancient gems and cameos based on new typological and stylistic criteria which made it easier to sort out modern copies and fakes and provided a solid foundation for later research to build on. Its significance not only for the study of gems but of ancient cultures in general was fully understood by contemporary reviewers, and it soon became one of the discipline’s classic publications, establishing its author as the doyen he always aspired to be. It has been estimated that Furtwängler examined fifty to sixty thousand original gems during the more than fifteen years he worked on this project, visiting most of the major public collections in Europe and the US and establishing personal relations with private collectors and dealers who provided him with all the information he required. This paper, which is based on unpublished archive material such as annotated manuscripts, correspondence, cast collections and photographs, discusses the state of this field of study in the latter half of the nineteenth century and proceeds to consider some of the possible reasons behind Furtwängler’s choice of study material, how his work was carefully planned and systematically carried out according to this initial plan, as well as the reception of his publication within the scholarly community and whether or not it contributed to a ”revival” of this field of study which had once been found at the very centre of antiquarian interest.

ABSTRACT: This paper traces the study and collecting of ancient, "ancient" and neoclassical engra... more ABSTRACT: This paper traces the study and collecting of ancient, "ancient" and neoclassical engraved gems, starting with Philipp von Stosch's "Gemmae Antiquae Caealatae" (Amsterdam 1724) and ending with Adolf Furtwängler's "Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum" (Berlin & Leipzig 1900). It also considers the highly interesting cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae, cabinets with gem casts and imprints in wax, plaster, sulphur, glass paste, electrotype etc.

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Friends of the Swedish Institute in Rome, University of Gothenburg 27 March 2023

In this talk, the ambitious project for a Topographical "Atlas of the Whole World" of the German ... more In this talk, the ambitious project for a Topographical "Atlas of the Whole World" of the German connoisseur and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) is presented and critically discussed. Stosch collected maps, drawings and prints of regions, cities, fortifications, buildings and monuments for a gigantic visual atlas that was never finished. At the time of Stosch's death, the material consisted of more than 30.000 maps, prints and drawings collected in 326 large folio volumes, of which 62 concerned the city of Rome.

Adolf Furtwängler is considered one of the pioneers of modern classical archaeology with an impre... more Adolf Furtwängler is considered one of the pioneers of modern classical archaeology with an impressive bibliography of noteworthy studies, many of which have made a deep and lasting impact on the discipline. Often described as one of the chief exponents of positivism in archaeology, Furtwängler's work was deeply affected by his first-hand experience of large-scale archaeology and his publications reveal his talent for structuring great masses of archaeological material in large systems-his students even called him "the Linnaeus of Classical Archaeology". Embracing every aspect of the emerging modern discipline, Furtwängler was also a stern traditionalist whose almost winckelmannian classicism and engagement with contemporary discourses on Panionism and East and West often interfered with his analyses and conclusions. This paper discusses some of the apparent paradoxes in Furtwängler's work and its reception.

Dept of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 5 November 2019

This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Rom... more This research project traces and examines antiquarian activity in the city of Rome and in the Roman Campagna in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Special focus is on developments during the early decades of the eighteenth century which culminated in the high profile «proto-archaeological» excavations of imperial palaces on the Palatine, of tombs and columbaria along the via Appia, and of villas in the Campagna and other projects. Many of these latter projects were carried out in the 1720s. Although modern judgment of such early field investigations has been mostly negative, historians of antiquarianism and ar¬chaeology have recently recognised the pioneering work that was in fact at times being done here by some of the excavators, sponsors, artists and scholars involved. Especially the visual documentation of archaeological contexts and finds has at¬tracted much interest lately for its relative precision and detail. Rather than focus on these already well-known excavations alone, the aim of this holistic study is to trace and analyse contextually the strategic positioning and interaction of a number of so-called «instrumental actors», both within the local antiquarian community and among its Italian and foreign correspondents, and to emphasise the collective aspects of knowledge production; to look at significant shifts in the approaches to and use of material and visual culture, as exemplified by collecting and collections, visual and textual documentation, correspondence and publications. Among the actors operating in these dynamic clusters in Rome and within larger networks can be mentioned Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729), Francesco de’ Ficoroni (1664-1747), Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755), Gaetano Piccini (active 1702-1740), Filippo Antonio Gualterio (1660-1728), Alessandro Gregorio Capponi (1683-1746), Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757), Melchior de Polignac (1661-1742) and Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), but the list is long.

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Dept of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University 30 May 2018

Dept of historical studies, University of Gothenburg, 3 December 2018

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Friends of the Swedish Institute in Rome, West Sweden chapter, 12 May 2017 (with Lena Larsson Lovén)

Seminars in the History of Collecting, The Wallace Collection, London, 25 April 2016

The dense mythology and the many entertaining but mostly malicious anecdotes that surrounded the ... more The dense mythology and the many entertaining but mostly malicious anecdotes that surrounded the enigmatic but widely influential Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) already in his lifetime have made him one of the most interesting but also misrepresented—because still insufficiently studied—figures in the history of collecting. Once a key actor in the antiquarian circles of early eighteenth-century Rome and Florence, where he was based for most of his life, Stosch is now chiefly known as the author of a beautifully illustrated study of ancient engraved gems signed by their artists (Gemmae antiquae caelatae/Pierres antiques gravées, 1724), and as a prominent collector of gems catalogued and published by Johann Joachim Winckelmann. The full picture is of course much more complex. Born in Küstrin, Brandenburg, Stosch spent his early years travelling widely across Europe before settling permanently in Italy in the early 1720s. Through his contacts with leading figures in the Republic of Letters like François Fagel, Richard Bentley, Bernard de Montfaucon, Sebastiano Bianchi, Francesco Ficoroni, Anton Francesco Gori, and notably Alessandro Albani, he gained access—even where others had failed—to most principal collections of the time, and expertly positioned himself at the very centre of an extensive international network that included scholars, collectors, royalty, popes, clergymen, statesmen and more or less everyone worth knowing in the world of collecting and dealing. These contacts, who were expertly cultivated, kept Stosch exceptionally well-informed of everything that was happening in the field: no collection remained unknown to him and no items of any significance were excavated, came on the market, or changed hands without his knowledge. Initially encouraged by his patron François Fagel to start collecting coins and medals, Stosch soon turned to engraved gems, which he confessed to Fagel had become “ma passion… ma folie dominante”. After having established himself in Italy, his homes in Rome and later Florence became natural meeting-points for local antiquarian circles as well as for expatriates and grand tourists, and figured prominently in for example the travelogues of Charles de Brosses and Johann Georg Keyssler, the drawings and diaries of the artist Pier Leone Ghezzi, and the correspondence of the two Horaces (Walpole and Mann), Albani, Winckelmann, the Count Caylus, J.J. Barthélémy, and many others. While in Rome Stosch greatly widened his collecting interests to include ancient sculpture, paintings, drawings and prints, rare books and manuscripts, maps, naturalia, arms and armour. His fervent collecting activities culminated in his astonishing Topographical Atlas project, which at the time of his death comprised no less than 324 bound volumes of maps, prints and drawings documenting the buildings and monuments of Rome, including all the drawings left by the architect Francesco Borromini. Described by Carl Justi as an ‘oracle for collectors’ but ‘zurückhaltend im Punkt des Mein und Dein’, Stosch was an expert in promoting his own collections and very generous in allowing fellow collectors and antiquarians access to them for study purposes, but extremely reluctant to part with any of his cherished items unless offered something more attractive in return. ‘I find I cannot live without Stosch’s intaglia [sic] of the Gladiator with the vase’, wrote Horace Walpole yearningly in a letter to the British Envoy in Florence, Horace Mann, who was trying his best to procure that particular and other gems for his friend from Stosch’s closely guarded collections, to no avail. The gem in question was instead presented as a gift to Viscount Duncannon, the Earl of Bessborough, in return for securing Stosch’s pension from the British Crown. Because Stosch’s collecting was not funded by his dealing in antiquities alone, but notably by the money he received from the British government for spying on the Old Pretender, James Stuart, who was staying in Rome as the Pope’s guest. This latter assignment most likely contributed to Stosch’s forced exile from the city in 1731 and his move to Florence, where his constantly growing museo soon required separate housing in the palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo, where the local antiquarians, letterati and freemasons intersected with the city’s expatriate community and many foreign visitors. Stosch’s close association with the British, as an informant but also as co-founder of the first masonic lodge in Florence together with Horace Mann and others, made him especially well-connected among British expats, grand tourists and collectors. From time to time, Stosch also expressed the wish to leave Italy and settle in Britain and possibly obtain a position at Oxford, which he had once visited as the guest of Richard Bentley. Based on a current book project, this talk traces and analyses Philipp von Stosch’s collecting activities and network building, from his formative grand tour (1709-17), through his Roman (1722-31) and Florentine (1731-57) periods, to his death and the complicated and drawn-out sale of his vast estate. It also considers the afterlife of parts of Stosch’s rich collections, including the notorious affair of the valuable manuscripts that were later found to have been stolen from the Vatican Library.

AIA South-West Texas Archaeological Society, Trinity University, San Antonio, 7.30 pm

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Life-Writing Seminar, Dept of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, 6 February 2015,

Dept of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, 17 February 2014

Dept of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 22 October 2013

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Friends of the Swedish Institute in Rome, West Sweden chapter, 12 January 2012

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Research Seminar, Dept of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Gothenburg, 23 January 2012

Friends of the Swedish Institute in Rome, Gothenburg 19 Nov. 2010

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Research Seminar, Dept of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Gothenburg, 30 November 2009

27 January 2011. Unpublished

14 August 2009. Unpublished

ABSTRACT: This article explores male friendship and networks among the local and international co... more ABSTRACT: This article explores male friendship and networks among the local and international communities in eighteenth-century Rome, Naples and especially Florence of the late Medici and Reggenza periods. It discusses various antiquarian activities that took place in learned societies, academies, masonic lodges and private homes etc., and how the various intersecting informal clusters of actors (antiquarians, expats, grand tourists, ciceroni, dealers, forgers, and collectors) influenced the study and collecting of ancient artworks, and the general reception of ancient art and culture. The article also includes a critical discussion of male homosociability in the aftermath of Queer Theory.

NB. THIS ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT IS CURRENTLY BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A CHAPTER IN MY BOOK ON STOSCH (a... more NB. THIS ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT IS CURRENTLY BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A CHAPTER IN MY BOOK ON STOSCH (above) ABSTRACT: this article traces the footsteps of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) during his Grand Tour and the period when he lived permanently in Rome right up until 1731 when he was forced to leave and settled in Florence. It also discusses some of Stosch's major antiquarian and diplomatic contacts, including François Fagel, Giusto Fontanini, Bernard de Montfaucon, Alessandro Albani, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Francesco Ficoroni, Marcantonio Sabbatini, Francesco Valesio, Leone Strozzi and others.

NB. THIS ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT IS CURRENTLY BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A CHAPTER IN MY BOOK ON STOSCH (a... more NB. THIS ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT IS CURRENTLY BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A CHAPTER IN MY BOOK ON STOSCH (above) ABSTRACT: This article explores the scholarly, collecting and other activities of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) during his Florentine exile, which lasted from 1731 until his death in 1757. Special focus is on first-hand and secondary accounts from foreign visitors and local antiquarians and literati, in publications, diaries and official and personal correspondence, of the Baron's astonishing collections that were housed in his home, the so-called "Museo Stosch" in the Palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo in borgo degli Albizi.

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ABSTRACT: This text explores the potential and limits of life-writing for histories of archaeolog... more ABSTRACT: This text explores the potential and limits of life-writing for histories of archaeology. It contains a critical discussion of some recent theoretical approaches such as Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Cultural Mobility Theory and their applicability to the archaeological disciplines in the construction of biographies of humans, texts, things and places. One case study is offered: the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) and his participation in the Olympia Excavations in the late 1870s.

This was originally an article manuscript that is now being transformed into a book project. Alth... more This was originally an article manuscript that is now being transformed into a book project. Although focus is on four key figures, Philipp von Stosch, Pierre-Jean Mariette, Anton Francesco Gori, and Johann Joachim Winckelmann, it is really a comprehensive history of eighteenth-century scholarship, collecting and popular reception, including the very interesting cultural phenomenon of the dactyliothecae (major gem cast producers such as Christian Dehn, Philipp Daniel Lippert, James Tassie, the Paolettis and others). The initial project phase was generously funded by the Fondazione Famiglia Rausing (Rome).

ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) was one of the most prolific classical archaeologists of ... more ABSTRACT: Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) was one of the most prolific classical archaeologists of his time; his books on Mycenaean pottery, Olympia bronzes, Greek sculpture and engraved gems were almost immediately canonized within the scholarly community and are still considered to be among the great “classics” of the discipline. Furtwängler suffered from bad temper and paranoid tendencies resulting in a highly problematic work situation and frosty relations, not only with his colleagues in Berlin and Munich where he did most of his work, but with the scholarly community at large: we learn from several sources that Furtwängler was “more feared than loved”, even hated as a person, but always highly respected as a scholar, despite the many harsh judgments and personal attacks on colleagues that his published works contained. The preserved archive material, especially Furtwängler’s unpublished correspondence, provides valuable insights into his various strategies for building professional networks and maintaining necessary relations on a professional level with colleagues and other contacts whom he considered useful or indispensable for his own work. The comparison between the list of individuals that Furtwängler corresponded with in relation to a certain research project and the people he actually thanked in the final publication has also proved revealing and significant in the general reconstruction of Furtwängler’s work methods. His personal archive and research networks, which covered a very wide international spectrum of professional and amateur archaeologists, administrators, museum curators, collectors and art dealers, are comparable to those of Philipp von Stosch before him and John Beazley after

ABSTRACT: A critical overview of the study and collecting of Etruscan engraved gems from the Rena... more ABSTRACT: A critical overview of the study and collecting of Etruscan engraved gems from the Renaissance to the present (more or less). This paper is related to two forthcoming books (1) the first on the production of engraved gems in pre-Roman Italy, 6th to 2nd centuries BCE, which is a much expanded version of my dissertation (Göteborg 2005) and also includes a list of the preserved corpus; (2) the second on eighteenth-century antiquarianism and books on engraved gems (a project still very much in progress).

ABSTRACT: The project work aims at a holistic investigation of the German archaeologist Adolf Fur... more ABSTRACT: The project work aims at a holistic investigation of the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler’s (1853-1907) substantial scholarly contribution to the field of classical archaeology through a critical study of three of Furtwängler’s key publications and their reception within the scholarly community: early Greek bronzes (Die Bronzen und die übrigen kleineren Funde von Olympia, Olympia IV, 1890), Greek sculpture (Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik: kunstgeschichtliche Untersuchungen, 1893), and ancient gems (Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum, 1900). One of the most influential classical archaeologists of all times, Furtwängler published widely on ancient art and archaeology and set a new standard for the discipline throughout Europe. Many of his books have remained standard works of reference to this day. While the few existing critical assessments of Furtwängler’s scholarly contribution are fragmentary in character, based exclusively on his published writings and mostly focusing on the legitimacy of his results in terms of "right" and "wrong" from a presentist standpoint, this new critical study considers additional unpublished archive material, through which it is also possible to partially reconstruct the dynamic working processes which ultimately resulted in the writing and publication of these three “classic” works. Such a reconstruction is crucial to a correct understanding of Furtwängler’s scholarly contribution, since the author himself never accounted for or even commented on his methods of investigation in his published texts. By including in the study a critical analysis of the various subjective and time-specific elements in these creative processes—the archaeologist-author, the intellectual and social milieux he moved in, his interaction with the scholarly community etc.—the potential and limits of such lines of research within the archaeological discipline are further explored and critically assessed.

ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the study and collecting of ancient engraved gems in the city o... more ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the study and collecting of ancient engraved gems in the city of Munich around 1900. It traces the scholarly and collecting activities of three very different personalities: the classical archaeologist and historian of ancient art Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), author of three major scholarly publications on gems (1888-90; 1896; 1900); his colleague and assistant Paul Arndt (1865-1937), who was also a professional dealer and collector of gems; and the amateur collector Adolf Frucht (1852-1914), who created an extraordinary collection of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century gem casts.

ABSTRACT: The University of Texas at Austin houses a major collection of plaster and sulphur cast... more ABSTRACT: The University of Texas at Austin houses a major collection of plaster and sulphur casts of classical and neoclassical engraved gems. The collection was formed by a European collector around 1900 and includes three 18th- and early 19th-century dactyliothecae (gem or cast cabinets) of German, Italian and British manufacture. This article traces the very interesting history of this collection and its first owner. A complete catalogue with online access is also in preparation.

ABSTRACT: A short essay on the collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch in Florence, and on Wi... more ABSTRACT: A short essay on the collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch in Florence, and on Winckelmann's later work on Stosch's collection, with special focus on the Etruscan gems, the well-known so-called Gemma Stosch and the Tydeus etc. In preparation

This is a recently initiated research project which focuses on Boëthius' period as the first prof... more This is a recently initiated research project which focuses on Boëthius' period as the first professor and chair of classical archaeology at Gothenburg (1934-55), where he also served as President/Rector Magnificus (1946-51). Sponsored by the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, the project will result in a longer journal article.

The project work aims at a holistic investigation of the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler’s... more The project work aims at a holistic investigation of the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler’s (1853-1907) substantial scholarly contribution to the field of classical archaeology through a critical study of three of Furtwängler’s key publications and their reception within the scholarly community: early Greek bronzes (Die Bronzen und die übrigen kleineren Funde von Olympia, Olympia IV, 1890), Greek sculpture (Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik: kunstgeschichtliche Untersuchungen, 1893), and ancient gems (Die antiken Gemmen: Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum, 1900). One of the most influential classical archaeologists of all times, Furtwängler published widely on ancient art and archaeology and set a new standard for the discipline throughout Europe. Many of his books have remained standard works of reference to this day. While the few existing critical assessments of Furtwängler’s scholarly contribution are fragmentary in character, based exclusively on his published writings and mostly focussing on the legitimacy of his results in terms of "right" and "wrong" from a presentist standpoint, this new critical study considers additional unpublished archive material, through which it is also possible to partially reconstruct the dynamic working processes which ultimately resulted in the writing and publication of these three “classic” works. Such a reconstruction is crucial to a correct understanding of Furtwängler’s scholarly output, since the author himself never accounted for or even commented on his methods of investigation in his published texts. By including in the study a critical analysis of the various subjective and time-specific elements in these dynamic creative processes—the archaeologist-author, the intellectual and social milieux he moved in, his interaction with the scholarly community etc.—the potential and limits of such lines of research within the archaeological discipline are further explored and critically assessed.

This project focuses on the study and collecting of ancient engraved gems and sculpture in the ci... more This project focuses on the study and collecting of ancient engraved gems and sculpture in the city of Munich around the turn of the century 1900. It traces the scholarly, collecting, and dealing activities of three very different personalities: the classical archaeologist and historian of ancient art Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907), author of three major scholarly publications on gems (1888-90; 1896; 1900); his colleague and assistant Paul Arndt (1865-1937), who was also a professional dealer and collector of gems; and the amateur collector Adolf Frucht (1852-1914), who created an extraordinary collection of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century gem casts.

Conference/session report EAA 2013, in The European Archaeologist 40, 2013/14: 37-39

by Stefan Krmnicek, Thomas Faucher, Helen Wang, Lyce Jankowski, Uliana Volkova, Mary Lannin, Ulf R. Hansson, Bernhard Weisser, Lucia Carbone, Vincent Drost, Pjotr Israels, Léa Saint-Raymond, Nicoleta Demian, Evgeny Zakharov, Jarosław Artur Bodzek, Italo Iasiello, and Vanja Macovaz

A research project executed at the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow by... more A research project executed at the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow by Paweł Gołyźniak, Ulf R. Hansson and Hadrien J. Rambach aiming to investigate scholarly and collecting activities of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) that contributed to transformation of eighteenth-century antiquarianism into proto-archaeology. The research is largely based on unknown pictorial and archival materials from the Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, the Vatican Library and private collections (see project's description in the attached file).