Catacombs in Museums: Archival Texts and Photos for the History of Museums

  • Chiara Cecalupo Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/anha.83070
Keywords: museums, Christian art, catacombs, documents
Agencies: La autora agradece el apoyo del programa CONEX-Plus, financiado por la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y la Unión Europea [CONEX-Plus program is funded by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 801538].

Abstract

This article introduces three case studies of museums of the end of the 19th century, which reproduced in facsimile the original layout of a Christian catacomb. These are the Christian Museum of the Lateran in Rome (1854), the Museum of the Teutonic Cemetery in the Vatican (1884) and the museum of Tusculum in Solin (1898). These museums no longer exist today and can only be reconstructed through archival documentation. The aim is to use these cases to help defining the role of archival sources (textual, graphic and photographic) in the reconstruction of the history of single museums and in the definition of artistic and museographic trends of the past that are little known today.

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Chiara Cecalupo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Orcid: 0000-0003-4230-3803

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Published
2022-07-14
How to Cite
Cecalupo C. . (2022). Catacombs in Museums: Archival Texts and Photos for the History of Museums. Anales de Historia del Arte, 32, 235-253. https://doi.org/10.5209/anha.83070
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Vol. 32 (2022): Art and the Archive
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