Publication on Palazzo di Venezia Museum, Rome

The following announcement is posted on behalf of my colleague Maria
Giulia Barberini of the Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia,
Rome.

Under Dr. Barberini's guidance and with a Getty Foundation grant, a
team of scholars, working hard and under difficult conditions, have
produced a four volume set of books and a website presenting
original research, photography, and scientific analysis of the
sculpture collection of the wonderful Palazzo di Venezia museum in
Rome. Their collections are extremely important but relatively
little known, and their work will make them much more accessible. I
congratulate them on their hard work, now a model to other Italian
collections.

The four volumes containing the results of the research "Roma. Il
palazzo di Venezia e le sue collezioni di scultura" will be
presented on 30 November 2011 at 5 pm in the Sala Altoviti of the
Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, promoted by the
Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed
Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale of the city of Rome,
directed by Rossella Vodret.

The research project has been sponsored by a grant from the Getty
Foundation of Los Angeles. The accomplishment of the project,
undertaken over a period of three years (2009-2011), has required
the coordination of various professional specialists * art
historians, archeologists, historians, archivists, communications
experts, photographers, restorers, and technical specialists * who
were charged with collaborating based on a philosophy of integrating
a complex range of interdisciplinary studies.

The four volumes, published by Gangemi editore, are as follows:

    I.  La storia del Palazzo di Venezia dalle collezioni Barbo e
    Grimani a sede dell'ambasciata veneta e austriaca, a cura di
    Maria Giulia Barberini, Matilde De Angelis d'Ossat, Alessandra
    Schiavon

    II.  Le sculture in legno di Grazia Maria Fachechi

    III. Le sculture in bronzo di Pietro Cannata

    IV.  Le sculture in terracotta di Cristiano Giometti

These volumes contain material for the most part not previously
published and not well known until the present time, and only
partially available in the publications of Federico Hermanin (Il
Palazzo di Venezia, 1948) and that of Maria Letizia Casanova
(Palazzo Venezia, 1992) for the study of the palace. While for
specific objects, the principal reference remained the publication
by Antonino Santangelo (Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle
sculture, 1954).

The extensive research and cataloging has allowed new insights into
the history of the Palazzo Venezia and its collections of
antiquities, to formulate new attributions, to specify geographical
provenance and to establish with greater accuracy the chronology of
the production of many works among the greatest masterpieces of
Italian and European wooden sculpture and works by artists such as
Riccio, Sansovino, Bernini and Algardi.

Web-site: <URL:http://museopalazzovenezia.beniculturali.it>

Promoted by the Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico,
Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale of the city of
Rome, In cooperation with Archivio di Stato of Venice and Istituto
Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro

Soprintendente: Rossella Vodret, Scientific coordination of the
Getty project: Maria Giulia Barberini, Director of the Museo
Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia: Andreina Draghi

See

    http://museopalazzovenezia.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/125/
        progetto-getty-foundation-catalogo-delle-sculture

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Editor <URL:http://www.gangemi.com>

Tony Sigel
Conservator of Objects and Sculpture
Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-1903
Fax: 495-0322


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