Ennio Quirino Visconti

Ennio Quirino Visconti ( born November 1, 1751 Rome, † February 7, 1818 in Paris ) was an Italian classical archaeologist and is considered the " most famous archaeologist of his time ".

Biography

Ennio Quirino Visconti was the son of the papal prefect of antiquities Giovanni Battista Visconti. He assisted his father in the publication of a catalog of the collection of the Museo Pio - Clementino. Later he continued his father's work alone and published until 1807 the following six volumes (II- VII) under his name. In 1783 he was appointed curator of the Vatican library and from 1785 director of the Capitoline Museum in Rome. During the brief Roman Republic of 1798 he was consul. As a political refugee, he came then to Paris in 1799, where he was curator of antiquities at the Louvre. In 1803 he became a professor and member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.

He dealt with Greek iconography and Roman sculpture. He wrote the first volume of a long -acting standard work on Roman iconography, three more volumes followed after his death, until in 1826.

His son was the French architect Louis Visconti.

Writings (selection )

• Museo Pio - Clementino, Volumes 2-7, Rome 1784-1807.
• Illustrazioni de ' monumenti scelti borghesiani, 2 volumes, Rome 1821 Digitaliste Archaeological Institute in Cologne, Volume 1, Volume 2; Milan 1837.
• Osservazioni sulla Iliad del Monti. Sansoni, Florence 1961.
• Per le nozze Grimani - Manin. Venice in 1829.
• Iconographie ancienne, ou Recueil des portraits authentiques of empereurs, rois et hommes de l' illustrious antiquité. Iconographie romaine. Paris 1817. Volume 1
• Iconographie grecque ou recueil of portraits of authentiques empereurs, rois et hommes de l' illustrious antiquité, 3 vols, Paris 1808, Volume 1, Volume 2/ 1, Volume 2/2; Giegler, Milan 1824-1826, digitized UB Heidelberg