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N2  - TEN CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF BOOKS ON ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY GIOVAN PIETRO BELLORI IN THE GIORNALE DE? LETTERATI, 1670-1680, NO. 9 Scelta de medaglioni più rari nella Biblioteca dell?Eminentissimo et Reverendissimo Principe il Signor Cardinale Gasparo Carpegna Vicario di Nostro Signore, Rom 1679 (Giornale de? letterati, Roma: Per Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, 1679,  I, pp. 9-12; II, pp. 30-32; III, pp. 43-48; IV, pp. 62-64; V, pp. 77-80; VI, pp. 94-96; VII, pp. 109-112; pp. VIII, 125-128; IX, pp. 141-144; X, pp. 158-160; XI, pp. 166-168; XII, pp. 187-190)  A selection of the large commemorative medallions, or "medaglioni",  from the collection of cardinal Gasparo Carpegna was published in 1679 under the title Scelta de medaglioni più rari nella Biblioteca dell'Eminentissimo et Reverendissimo Principe il Signor Cardinale Gasparo Carpegna. In the dedication Bellori is identified as the author of the commentaries. In Bellori?s commentaries Pietro Santi Bartoli is identified as the draftsman and engraver of the twenty-three  medallions. The medallions presented in the volume are a selection from the Cardinal?s collection of forty-five pieces all of which are described in an index at the end of the book: ?Indice de? medaglioni che si truovono nella Bibliotheca dell?Eminentiss. e Reverendiss. Sig. Cardinale Gasparo Carpegna?. The index is reproduced in the illustrations.  The book concludes with an important discussion entitled ?Del Pregio e nobiltà de' Medaglioni?  which is transcribed in Appendix I. Here Bellori discusses the size of the medallions, their images, and their functions. Bellori's explications of the medaglioni evidence his mastery of many different  genres of antiquities and his ability to draw upon many different types of objects ? coins, inscriptions, paintings and reliefs ? in order to interpret each medallion.       In the same year as the publication of the Scelta, 1679,  the editor of the Giornale de? letterati, Giovanni Giustino Ciampini published abridgements of Bellori?s commentaries together with all of  Bartoli?s illustrations to the Scelta de' Medaglioni in twelve installments in the Giornale de? letterati. The writer summarizes Bellori?s description and interpretation of the obverse and reverse of the twenty-three medallions presented in the Scelta. The inscriptions on the obverse and reverse of the medallions are reported and the abbreviations of the inscriptions resolved. Pietro Santi Bartoli?s original plates for the illustrations of the medallions in the Scelta were re-used in the entries in the Giornale de? letterati. Bellori?s often lengthy and detailed explications of the inscriptions are briefly summarized. His descriptions and interpretations of the images on the medal reverses are more extensively reported. Only rarely does the reviewer interpolate. The publication of the Scelta de medaglioni in twelve abbreviated installments in the Giornale de letterati rendered the knowledge of Cardinal Garpare Carpegna?s prestigious collection and its catalogue by Giovan Pietro Bellori accessible to a wide audience of scholars of many disciplines in Italy and beyond her borders. Bellori?s publications on gems and coins had been discussed in earlier issues of the Giornale. His catalogue of gems from the collection of Leonardo Agostini, Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini,  had been reviewed in the Giornale de? letterati in 1669 (Fontes 11, Bellori 1). His study of two coins in the collection of Cardinal Camillo Massimi, entitled Selecti nummi duo Antoniniani, was reviewed in both editions of the Giornale in 1676 (ed. Nazari, 1676, pp. 141-145, Fontes 21, Bellori 6; ed. Ciampini, 1676, pp. 169-175, Fontes 22, Bellori 7). His description of Cardinal Carpegna?s collection was given unusually full coverage in twelve different issues of the Giornale. Possibly the cardinal himself desired the numerous reviews. The reviewer of Bellori?s Scelta de? medaglioni was an antiquarian with a special interest in numismatics, and it is not unlikely that he was also the author of the review of the Selecta nummi in Ciampini?s edition of the Giornale. Furthermore, there are internal connections between the two reviews of the Scelta de medaglioni and the Selecta nummi and the review of Bellori?s Columna Antoniniana, which also appeared in Ciampini?s edition of the Giornale.
A1  - Bellori, Giovanni Pietro
ID  - artdok649
ED  - Davis, Margaret Daly
TI  - Anonymus, Rezension von Giovan Pietro Bellori: Scelta de medaglioni più rari nella Bibliotheca dell?Eminentiss. etReverendiss. Principe il Signor Cardinale Gasparo Carpegna, Vicario di Nostro Signore(Rom 1679) in: Giornale de? letterati, ed. Giovanni Giustino Ciampini, 1679 (FONTES 26)
KW  - Kunst- und Architekturkritik
Y1  - 2009///
ER  -