Raffaele Garrucci, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Raffaele Garrucci

Italian art historian

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1812

Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy

Date of Death: 05-May-1885

Profession: art historian, numismatist, archaeologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Raffaele Garrucci

  • Raffaele Garrucci (22 January 1812 – 5 May 1885) was a historian of Christian art.
  • He was born in Naples to a wealthy family, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of fifteen, and was professed on 19 March 1853.
  • He devoted himself to the study of the Church Fathers, also to Pagan and Christian antiquities; both he and the celebrated Giovanni Battista de Rossi became the principal disciples of Father Marchi.
  • On his many journeys through Italy, France, Germany, and Spain, he collected much material for his archaeological publications. In 1854 he wrote for Father Charles Cahier's MĂ©langes d'ArchĂ©ologie, a study on Phrygian syncretism.
  • Soon after he edited the notes of Jean L' Heureux on the catacombs of Rome (in manuscript since 1605); later an essay on the gilded glasses of the catacombs (1858), and another on the Jewish cemetery at the Vigna Randanini.
  • In 1872 he began the publication of a monumental history of early Christian antiquities, entitled Storia dell'arte cristiana.
  • It was destined to include all works of sculpture, painting, and the minor and industrial arts, during the first eight centuries of the Christian Era.
  • It is a general history of early Christian art, and contains five hundred finely engraved plates and explanatory text.
  • Five of the six volumes contain, respectively, the catacomb-frescoes—and paintings from other quarters—gold glasses, mosaics, sarcophagi, and non-sepulchral sculptures.
  • The first volume is devoted to the theoretical part of the work, i.e.
  • to a history of Christian art properly so called. In this vast collection Garrucci re-edited to some extent materials taken from earlier works.
  • For hitherto unedited materials he used photographs or reproductions of some other kind.
  • His engravings are not always very accurate, and in point of finish are inferior to those obtained by more modern processes.
  • The list of his publications covers 118 numbers on Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la compagnie de JĂ©sus (Brussels 1902), III.
  • Among them are the aforementioned Storia dell'arte cristiana nei primi otto secoli della chiesa (6 vols.
  • Prato 1872—81); Dissertazioni archeologiche di vario argomento (2 vols., Rome 1864-65); Le monete dell'Italia antica, Raccolta generale (Rome, 1885). Garrucci died in Rome in 1885.

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