Ulf R. Hansson
I’m a classical archaeologist, art and cultural historian, interested in pre- and early Roman archaeology, the history of scholarship, knowledge and cultural transfer in antiquarianism and archaeology, history of collecting and collections, and popular reception of ancient art and culture. I am Director of the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and a Research Fellow in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin.
An authority on Greek, Roman, and especially Etruscan engraved gems, I’m the author of the chapter on engraved gems in Routledge's Etruscan World, ed. J. MacIntosh Turfa (2013). My PhD diss. (Gothenburg 2005) was on late Etruscan and Italic engraved gems. A much expanded version with an updated Gesamtkatalog covering the glyptic production in central Italy from the archaic to the early Roman period is in preparation. I have also published extensively on the history of gem scholarship and collecting (for example on Stosch, Winckelmann, and Furtwängler), and on the interesting cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae (gem cast cabinets), which played an instrumental role in the reception of ancient art and mythology in early modern Europe. I'm moreover interested in archaeological revivalist jewellery, especially so-called "Etruscanising" works, by the Castellani, Giuliano, Melillo and other 19th-century workshops. A book chapter on 18th- and 19th-century popular reception of Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery was recently published in An Etruscan Affair (ed. J. Swaddling, British Museum Press)
My research interests in ancient material and visual culture also include Greek and Roman sculpture in both its original ancient and post-classical contexts, especially problems of context, iconography, meaning and reception.
I've recently completed a major study on the wide scholarly contribution of the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) sponsored by the Swedish Research Council (under publication). In connection with this project I organised the international conference "Classical Archaeology in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1870-1900" (Rome 2013, also under publication). I was also involved for a number of years as an admin of HARN, Histories of Archaeology Research Network, and has organised a number of conferences, workshops and sessions on the history of archaeology.
My ongoing research is focused mostly on antiquarian networks in early modern Europe and on the study and reception of Roman material and visual culture in 17th- and early 18th-century Italy. I currently am finishing a book on the antiquarian and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) and am also writing a book on proto-archaeology in early 18th-century Rome.
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Address: Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, via Omero 14, I-00197 Roma (Italy) Tel +39 06 320 1596 / 1966 Fax +39 06 323 0265 E-mail [email protected]
Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2210 Speedway mailcode C3400, Austin TX 78712-1378 USA, Tel +1 512 471 5742 Fax +1 512 471 4111 E-mail [email protected]
An authority on Greek, Roman, and especially Etruscan engraved gems, I’m the author of the chapter on engraved gems in Routledge's Etruscan World, ed. J. MacIntosh Turfa (2013). My PhD diss. (Gothenburg 2005) was on late Etruscan and Italic engraved gems. A much expanded version with an updated Gesamtkatalog covering the glyptic production in central Italy from the archaic to the early Roman period is in preparation. I have also published extensively on the history of gem scholarship and collecting (for example on Stosch, Winckelmann, and Furtwängler), and on the interesting cultural phenomenon of dactyliothecae (gem cast cabinets), which played an instrumental role in the reception of ancient art and mythology in early modern Europe. I'm moreover interested in archaeological revivalist jewellery, especially so-called "Etruscanising" works, by the Castellani, Giuliano, Melillo and other 19th-century workshops. A book chapter on 18th- and 19th-century popular reception of Etruscan engraved gems and jewellery was recently published in An Etruscan Affair (ed. J. Swaddling, British Museum Press)
My research interests in ancient material and visual culture also include Greek and Roman sculpture in both its original ancient and post-classical contexts, especially problems of context, iconography, meaning and reception.
I've recently completed a major study on the wide scholarly contribution of the German classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) sponsored by the Swedish Research Council (under publication). In connection with this project I organised the international conference "Classical Archaeology in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1870-1900" (Rome 2013, also under publication). I was also involved for a number of years as an admin of HARN, Histories of Archaeology Research Network, and has organised a number of conferences, workshops and sessions on the history of archaeology.
My ongoing research is focused mostly on antiquarian networks in early modern Europe and on the study and reception of Roman material and visual culture in 17th- and early 18th-century Italy. I currently am finishing a book on the antiquarian and collector Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) and am also writing a book on proto-archaeology in early 18th-century Rome.
ORCID 0000-0002-8234-1727 Web of Science ResearcherID M-8788-2014
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Address: Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, via Omero 14, I-00197 Roma (Italy) Tel +39 06 320 1596 / 1966 Fax +39 06 323 0265 E-mail [email protected]
Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2210 Speedway mailcode C3400, Austin TX 78712-1378 USA, Tel +1 512 471 5742 Fax +1 512 471 4111 E-mail [email protected]
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS (ONGOING) by Ulf R. Hansson
a globolo and related scarab gems. The new comprehensive study traces and examines the production and use(s) of engraved gems and seal stones in Central and Southern Italy from the early circulation of imported works, the establishment of immigrant (East Greek) engravers in Etruria and the South, and the development of local workshops in the second half of the sixth century BCE, down to the end of the Etruscan, Italic and South Italian production and the establishment of Roman Republican production centres. The holistic study includes an extensive survey of find contexts and other available archaeological data plus new typological and iconographical analyses. The appended list of items in the surviving corpus of gems in public, corporate and private collections updates and adds about 55% new material to earlier Gesamtkatalogen, notably those of Zazoff (1968), Martini (1971), Krauskopf (1995) and Giovanelli (2015).
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Edited Volumes by Ulf R. Hansson
Book Chapters by Ulf R. Hansson
a globolo and related scarab gems. The new comprehensive study traces and examines the production and use(s) of engraved gems and seal stones in Central and Southern Italy from the early circulation of imported works, the establishment of immigrant (East Greek) engravers in Etruria and the South, and the development of local workshops in the second half of the sixth century BCE, down to the end of the Etruscan, Italic and South Italian production and the establishment of Roman Republican production centres. The holistic study includes an extensive survey of find contexts and other available archaeological data plus new typological and iconographical analyses. The appended list of items in the surviving corpus of gems in public, corporate and private collections updates and adds about 55% new material to earlier Gesamtkatalogen, notably those of Zazoff (1968), Martini (1971), Krauskopf (1995) and Giovanelli (2015).
The deadline for paper proposals is Thursday 30 June 2022.
Proposals for papers of approximately 300 words, accompanied by a brief biographical note, should be sent before 30 June 2022 to the following address : [email protected]
ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Throughout the discipline’s history, archaeologists have shared knowledge with their scholarly communities through various forms of interaction like publications, conferences, seminars, lectures, and exhibitions. These public events and the responses they provoke constitute an open scientific dialogue indispensable for the community’s accumulation and revision of collective knowledge. A key role in the processes of knowledge production preceding such public events is played by informal clusters or networks of scholars: dynamic systems of exchange loosely constituted by individuals and groups who generate and communicate knowledge and ideas both within the system and with external actors and communities.This session problematizes knowledge production and mediation in archaeology over the last 150 years, and critically examines how various informal modes of exchange between individuals and groups affect the trajectories of their public ideas about material culture and past civilizations. The papers focus on how archaeologists who have created and continue to create knowledge within their respective fields both influence and are inspired by the networks in which they operate through the more informal and private but significant exchanges that take place when they meet and talk to each other, in person or through correspondence. As a unit, the papers argue that the informal character of these gatherings inspired the generation of scientific ideas and thus affected the dynamic process of knowledge production in other but equally significant ways than knowledge produced within more formally restrained contexts. The presenters’ varying viewpoints will allow for a more holistic exploration of the instrumentality of informal clusters of actors in the production and mediation of data.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-42122
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Abstract:
This book, published with two online appendices, highlights and discusses critically a facet of Stosch that stands in sharp contrast to the dense negative mythology of him as a spy, hoarder and libertine which for a long time obscured and undermined the true nature of his accomplishments as a serious antiquarian, collector, patron and scholar. The rediscovery and careful study of a substantial part of Stosch’s vast Paper Museum of Gems, previously considered lost, have made this thorough reassessment possible. Numerous artists, including Pier Leone Ghezzi, Girolamo Odam, Bernard Picart, Antonio Maria Zanetti, Theodorus Netscher, Markus Tuscher, Johann Justin Preißler, Georg Martin Preißler, Georg Abraham Nagel and Johann Adam Schweickart, worked for Stosch on the faithful documentation of an astonishing number of engraved gems. Made for a variety of purposes, the drawings testify to Stosch’s crucial role in the creation and transfer of knowledge that contributed to the transformation of eighteenth-century antiquarianism and revolutionised the study of gems.