Archives & excavations : essays on the history of archaeological excavations in Rome and southern Italy from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bignamini, Ilaria, 1952-2001 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : British School at Rome, 2004.
Series:Archaeological monographs of the British School at Rome ; no. 14.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Rescue archaeology in the Renaissance / Ian Campbell
  • Research in the Roman catacombs by the Louvain antiquarian Philips van Winghe / Cornelis Schuddeboom
  • Archaeologies, antiquaries and the Memorie of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Rome / Amanda Claridge
  • Excavations, collectors and scholars in seventeenth-century Rome / Ingo Herklotz
  • British excavations in the Papal States during the eighteenth-century / Ilaria Bignamini
  • A painter in search of a poet : Allan Ramsay and Horace's villa, 1755-84 / Iain Gordon Brown
  • Charles Townley's collection of drawing and papers : a source for eighteenth-century excavations, the market and collections / Brian F. Cook
  • How antique is antique? : the restoration of mosaics for the Vatican museums / Klaus E. Werner
  • Towns and tombs : three-dimensional documentation of archaeological sites in the Kingdom of Napes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Valentin Kockel
  • Giacomo Boni's excavations in the Roman Forum as seen in the photographs of Thomas Ashby / Rita Turchetti
  • Excavations in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 1885-1904 : analysis of the pre-existing medieval remains under the Palazzo Le Roy / Susanna Le Pera Buranelli
  • Discoveries at the Scala Santa : the excavations of 1852-4 / Paolo Liverani
  • The discovery of the Etruscans in the early nineteenth century : some archival documents / Ronald T. Ridley
  • Excavations in Etruria in the 1880s : the case of Veii / Paolo Liverani.