Philipp von Stosch: Collecting, Drawing, Studying and Publishing Engraved Gems

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71253-9
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 289 mm

Reihe: Monumenta Graeca et Romana

This book, published with two online only appendices, is designed to show and discuss another facet of Stosch that would argue with the dense mythology of a spy, hoarder and libertine clouding the true nature of his accomplishments as an antiquarian, collector, patron and scholar. This is possible due to discovery and study of a substantial part of Stosch’s, previously considered lost, enormous Paper Museum of Gems. The artists, including Pier Leone Ghezzi, Girolamo Odam, Bernard Picart, Antonio Maria Zanetti, Markus Tuscher, Theodorus Netscher, Georg Martin Preißler, Johann Justin Preißler and Johann Adam Schweickart, tirelessly worked in a studio organised by Stosch on the faithful documentation of vast numbers of engraved gems. Made for a variety of purposes, they expose Stosch’s crucial role in the creation and transfer of knowledge that contributed immensely to the transformation of eighteenth-century antiquarianism towards a more scholarly archaeological science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Golyzniak, Pawel

Hansson, Ulf R.

Rambach, Hadrien J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Golyzniak, Pawel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Pawel Golyzniak works as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His research interests include engraved gems (ancient and neo-classical), Roman Republican and Augustan numismatics, history of antiquarianism, collecting and scholarship and the legacies of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) and Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755). Author of Ancient Engraved Gems in the National Museum in Krakow (2017) and Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus (2020).

Ulf R. Hansson is Director of the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and Sr Research Fellow in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. A classical archaeologist and cultural historian of ancient and early modern Italy, his research interests include classical and post-classical engraved gems, history of antiquarianism and archaeology, history of collecting and collections, and classical reception. He is the author of A Globolo Gems. Late Etrusco-Italic Scarab Intaglios (2005) and several articles and book chapters on Stosch and on the study of ancient glyptic.

Hadrien J. Rambach is an antiquities advisor, currently enrolled as a PhD student researching coin collectors of the 18th century. He has published numerous articles devoted to the Roman, Renaissance and Neoclassical numismatics and glyptics, and especially to the history of collecting.