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Andrea Fulvio (in his Latin publications and correspondence Andreas Fulvius; c. 1470–1527) was an Italian 
Fulvio published two volumes. One contained the first attempts at identifying famous faces of
Renaissance humanist
Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. During the period, the term ''humanist'' ( it, umanista) referred to teache ...
, poet and antiquarian
An antiquarian or antiquary () is an fan (person), aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artifact (archaeology), artifac ...
active in Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus ( legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
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, who advised Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual ...
in the reconstructions of ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom ...
as settings for his frescoes. Fulvio was Raphael's companion and ''cicerone'' as they explored the ruins, Fulvio showing Raphael what was essential to be drawn and ex temporising on them.
Fulvio published two volumes. One contained the first attempts at identifying famous faces of Antiquity
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from numismatic evidence, his richly illustrated ''Illustrium imagines'' of 1517, the portrait heads possibly by Giovanni Battista Palumba
Giovanni Battista Palumba, also known as the Master I.B. with a Bird (or the Bird etc.), was an Italian printmaker active in the early 16th century, making both engravings and woodcuts; he is generally attributed with respectively 14 and 11 of t ...
. The other was a guide to the city's antiquities, ''Antiquitates Urbis'', published in the disastrous year 1527. For a more popular market, his ''Antiquitates Urbis'' were translated into Italian by Paolo Del Rosso and published at Venice in 1543 with the title '' Opera delle antichità della città di Roma & delli edificij memorabili di quella''. It proved so useful as a guidebook in Italian that it was updated by Girolamo Ferrucci and reprinted at Venice in 1588 with the title ''L'antichità di Roma di nuovo con ogni diligenza corretta & ampliata''.
''Antiquitates Urbis'' furnished more than a new guide to the antiquities of Rome seen by a humanist's critical eye, the first of a genre of antiquarian topographical studies that extends to our time. It also remarked upon the introduction of printing to Rome in the previous generation and identified a few collections, such as Angelo Colocci
Angelo Colocci (1467 at Iesi, Marche – 1549) of Rome, papal secretary of Pope Leo X, romance philologist and a Renaissance humanist at the collegial center of literary and artistic classicism, assembled a collection of antiquities in his v ...
's antiquities in his villa beside the Aqua Virgo
The Aqua Virgo was one of the eleven Roman aqueducts that supplied the city of ancient Rome. It was completed in 19 BC by Marcus Agrippa, during the reign of the emperor Augustus and was built mainly to supply the contemporaneous Baths of Agri ...
and Andrea Cardinal della Valle's Roman coins. Many of the astute observations recorded in Fulvio's ''Antiquitates Urbis'' have withstood time's tests: the half-lifesize Roman bronze ''Camillus'', then known as the ''Zingara'' ("Gypsy Woman"), he first identified as a young serving lad, and the Marphurius
Marphurius or Marforio ( it, Marforio; Medieval la, Marphurius, ) is one of the talking statues of Rome. Marforio maintained a friendly rivalry with his most prominent rival, Pasquin. As at the other five "talking statues", pasquinades—irreve ...
he recognized as a reclining river god, a Roman iconographical type unknown to the previous generations of antiquarians. He remarked upon the pacifying gesture of the equestrian Marcus Aurelius.The observations are noted by Haskell and Penny 1981.
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