The volume is the catalogue of an international exhibition organized by M. Betrò in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, in 2010, in collaboration with the Museum (see under the tipology of publications “Altro”). This exhibit displayed, for the first time in Egypt, seventy-two original drawings and manuscripts among the most beautiful and important of Ippolito Rosellini and the Tuscan expedition in Egypt in 1828-29. The catalogue, as well as the detailed descriptions of the manuscripts and drawings displayed (by M. Betrò, P. Del Vesco, F. Facchetti, G. Miniaci, D. Salvoldi), includes essays by M. Betrò, C. Guidotti, A. Pesante, F. Silvano, Many of the manuscripts and drawings on display were unpublished and some of them discovered during the “Rosellini Project", a two-year research programme, directed by M. Betrò and funded by the Foundation Cassa di Risaprmio of Pisa, for digitizing and publishing on the web the material stored in Pisa, in the Rosellini Fund of the University Library. Particular attention was given, both in the exposition and its catalog, to the reconstitution of the work made in Egypt by Rosellini and the expedition, highlighting the existing links between the manuscripts, drawings, the Journal of Travel Rosellini, on the one hand, and the objects to which they refer, now in Florence, on the other.
Ippolito Rosellini e gli inizi dell'Egittologia / Ippolito Rosellini and the dawn of Egyptology
BETRO', MARIA CARMELA
2010-01-01
Abstract
The volume is the catalogue of an international exhibition organized by M. Betrò in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, in 2010, in collaboration with the Museum (see under the tipology of publications “Altro”). This exhibit displayed, for the first time in Egypt, seventy-two original drawings and manuscripts among the most beautiful and important of Ippolito Rosellini and the Tuscan expedition in Egypt in 1828-29. The catalogue, as well as the detailed descriptions of the manuscripts and drawings displayed (by M. Betrò, P. Del Vesco, F. Facchetti, G. Miniaci, D. Salvoldi), includes essays by M. Betrò, C. Guidotti, A. Pesante, F. Silvano, Many of the manuscripts and drawings on display were unpublished and some of them discovered during the “Rosellini Project", a two-year research programme, directed by M. Betrò and funded by the Foundation Cassa di Risaprmio of Pisa, for digitizing and publishing on the web the material stored in Pisa, in the Rosellini Fund of the University Library. Particular attention was given, both in the exposition and its catalog, to the reconstitution of the work made in Egypt by Rosellini and the expedition, highlighting the existing links between the manuscripts, drawings, the Journal of Travel Rosellini, on the one hand, and the objects to which they refer, now in Florence, on the other.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
