Francesco Inghirami (1772-1846) was an Italian archeologist and author.
He was born to a prominent family from
Volterra. His brother
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(1779 – 1851) was a prominent astronomer and Catholic priest. His brother Marcello was a prominent alabaster sculptor. As a young man, Francesco fought in the
Napoleonic wars in 1799. He then returned to Tuscany, where he began collecting mainly
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antiquities. He founded a college at
Fiesole. He published illustrations of some of his collections in his ten volume ''Monumenti etruschi'' (1820–1827), ''Galleria Omerica'' (also titled ''Raccolta di monumenti antichi esibita dal cav. Francesco Inghirami per servire allo studio dell'Illiade e dell'Odissea'' 3 volumes, 1829–1851), ''Pitture di vasi fittili'' (1831-1837), ''Museo etrusco chiusino'' (2 volumes, 1833), and the incomplete ''Storia della Toscana'' (1841-1845). He illustrated and engraved many if not most of the drawings for these texts.
[The Encyclopædia Britannica: by Hugh Chisholm, Paul Robert Kruse · 1910.]
Gallery of Illustrations
File:INGHIRAMI(1837) Pitture di vasi fittili Vol4 T301.jpg, Illustration from Pitture di vasi Fittili
File:INGHIRAMI(1835) Pitture di vasi fittili Vol3 T251.jpg, Illustration from Pitture di vasi Fittili
File:INGHIRAMI(1821) Bronzi etruschi - T 15.jpg, Illustration from ''Monumenti etruschi''
File:Monumenti Etruschi o di Etrusco nome (1821) (14800234903).jpg, Illustration from ''Monumenti etruschi''
References
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1662 births
1729 deaths
19th-century Italian archaeologists
Etruscologists
Italian engravers
18th-century Italian writers
People from Volterra