Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli

Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli ( born February 19, 1900 in Siena, † 17 January 1975 in Rome) was a leading Italian classical archaeologist of the 20th century. His research interests included, in particular the Italic, Etruscan and Roman Art.

Life

Bianchi Bandinelli, son of an Italian nobleman and one originating from Silesia mother was privately educated. Since 1915, he attended the Liceo in Siena, where he met interned in Siena historian Karl Julius Beloch. After his military service, he studied mainly Classical Archaeology at the University of Rome in 1923 and his doctorate with a thesis on Chiusi in the Etruscan period. After a brief spell as a high school teacher in Siena in 1929, he received a lectureship in Archaeology and History of Greek and Roman Art at the University of Cagliari, 1930/1931 he taught at the University of Groningen and from 1934 to 1938 as full professor at the University of Pisa. He was obliged to keep along with the director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Friedrich Kriegbaum on May 9, 1938 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during her visit to Florence ..

Since 1939 he has taught at the University of Florence, but resigned during the Republic of Salò, was taken by the fascists hostage. Since 1944 he was a member of the Partito Comunista Italiano. From 1945 to 1947 he served as Director General of Antiquities and Fine Arts at the Ministry in Rome. He then taught again as a professor in Cagliari ( 1947-1950 ), Florence ( 1950-1957 ), and finally in Rome ( 1957-1964 ).

Since 1947 he was a regular member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.

Writings (selection )

• Reality and abstraction., Publishing House of Art, Dresden 1962
• Rome. The center of power. The Roman art from its beginnings to the time of Marcus Aurelius. ( World of Art) Beck, Munich, 1970, ISBN 3-406-03015-7
• Rome. The end of the ancient world. The Roman Art in the time of Septimius Severus to Theodosius I ( Universe of Art) Beck, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-03017-3
• With Antonia Giuliano: Etruscan and Italic peoples before the Roman domination. The Italian art of the early history up to the Social War. ( World of Art) Beck, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-406-03021-1.
• Classical Archaeology. A critical introduction. Beck, Munich 1978. ISBN 3-406-06769-7
• The Roman Art. From the beginning to the end of antiquity [ unabridged text published in the universe of art books, Rome, center of power, and Rome, the end of antiquity ]. Beck, Munich 1975 / Publisher of Art, Dresden 1983