Museum Cortonense In Quo Vetera Monumenta Complectuntur Anaglypha, Thoreumata, Gemmæ Inscalptæ, Insculptæque Qu In Academia Etrusca Ceterisque Nobilium Virorum Domibus Adservantur In Plurimis Tabulis reis Distributum, Atque A Francisco Valesio Romano, Antonio Francisco Gorio Florentino, Et Rodulphino Venuti Cortonense Notis Illustratum.
Romæ,: MDCCL., Sumptibus Fausti Amidei Bibliopolæ In Via Cursus. Typis Joannis Generosi Salomoni In Foro S. Ignatii. Superiorum Permissu.
Physical Description
xviii, 126 p., 85 pl.: illus.; 335 mm. (Quarto).
Contents
[T.p., epigraph, dedic., imprimatur] - Ad Lectorem [with illus.] - Index Alphabeticuus Gemmarum, Aliarumque Antiquitatum - [Text with pl.] - Index Rerum Notabilium - Errata sic corrigito.
Responsibility Note
No plate or in-text illustration is signed.
The book is dedicated by the bookseller and publisher Fausto Amidei to Abbé Alexander Joseph Chiappino.
References
D. Gallo, 'Ridolfino Venuti: Antiquario illuminato' in L'Accademia Etrusca [exhibition catalogue, ed. P. Barocchi & D. Gallo] (Cortona: Mus. Accad. Etrus., 1985), p. 84-93.
Summary Note
Most antiquities shown are engraved gems, but there are also bronze and marble statues and bas-reliefs. Two plates at the beginning show excavations.