Antiquities in motion : from excavation sites to Renaissance collections /
Furlotti, Barbaraauthor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Brought to light: digging in and around Rome -- Chapter 2. Marketing antiquities: marketplaces, companies, and shops -- Chapter 3. Acquiring meanings, gaining value: antiquarians and the market for antiquities -- Chapter 4. From restoration to sale: antiquities in sculptors' workshops -- Chapter 5. The price of collecting: acquiring antiquities in sixteenth-century Rome -- Chapter 6. The other side of the coin: collecting meets illegality -- Chapter 7. Exporting antiquities: the rules and the practice -- Chapter 8. Moving antiquities around -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Paul IV's motu proprio for the protection of Roman antiquities, [20 December] 1556 -- Evidence from Francesco Serason's trial for the illegal acquisition of ancient marbles, July-August 1557 -- Vincenzo Stampa's letter from Rome to Cardinal Carlo Borromeo in Milan about his possible appointment as "keeper of the Belvedere antiquities," 1 November 1556 -- Evidence from the trial for fraud against Vincenzo Stampa, 1569 -- Cardinal Luigi Cornaro's ban for the protection of Roman antiquities, 20 June 1570 -- Excavation contract between donna Ersilia del Monte and the "soci excavatori" maestro Oliverio Mariani from Ascoli and Giovanni Bonardo from Rocca di Cagni, 11 December 1573 -- Cardinal Enrico Caetani's revocation of all excavation licenses, 21 January 1588 -- Littera passus for Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy, 1 February 1588 -- Excavation license granted to Ginevra Salviati, December 1591 -- Evidence from the trial against Vincenzo Menichelli for unauthorized diggings, April-May 1594 -- Index.
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