The book series Atti gives voice to the conference activity of the Fondazione, which began with two meetings organized by Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and by the Municipality of Cortona in 2014 and 2016. These conventions represented a moment of considerable scientific relevance and offered a new openness to museology and the art of collecting, themes that became of great interest to scholars in recent years.These conferences resulted then in the book Collezionisti, Accademie, Musei: Storie del mondo etrusco dal XVI al XIX secolo by Ilaria Bianchi and Giulio Paolucci.
The volume dedicated to this meeting focuses on themes related to the history and the peculiarities of collecting antiquities, in particular Etruscan. This phenomenon was supported, from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, by a research of sense of nationhood and belonging that recognized in the Etruscan civilization the first experience of unification under a common identity.
Therefore, Fondazione Luigi Rovati enthusiastically embraced the idea of publishing writings of specialists and prominent figures, finding in these testimonies the leading events that brought to the formation of the main Italian and worldwide art collections.
Fondazione Luigi Rovati enthusiastically embraced the idea of publishing writings of specialists and prominent figures, finding in these testimonies the leading events that brought to the formation of the main Italian and worldwide art collections.
