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Document Details : Title: L'«Ape Regina» dell'Arcidiacono Subtitle: Un'effigie di Artemide Efesia dal Museum Oddianum Author(s): BATINO, Sabrina Journal: BABESCH Volume: 98 Date: 2023 Pages: 125-146 DOI: 10.2143/BAB.98.0.3291705 Abstract : As is well known, in the first half of the Seventeenth century, in Perugia the learned Archdeacon Giacomo Oddi (1598-1675) founded the Galleria, a valuable collection of curiosities, paintings and archaeological finds, whose wide range of objects stirred great interest among European amateurs and scholars over the following two centuries. Despite its fame, however, an unbroken narrative of the whole story for the city’s largest collection between 1600 and 1800 is still to be considered a work in progress. This paper focuses on the role of a small sculpture of Artemis Ephesia, as a starting point for re-examining the collecting context of Antiquities in Baroque Rome and shedding new light on some key relationships between scholars, merchants and patrons of the Saeculum Barberinum. Hopefully, this will allow us to outline in more detail both the beginnings of the Museum Oddianum and the cultural stature of its creator. |
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