The contribution of Cardinal Bedřich Egon of Fürstenberg to the building up of the picture collection of the Olomouc archbishops

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/digilib.79811" target="_blank" >https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/digilib.79811</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/OHA2023-2-1" target="_blank" >10.5817/OHA2023-2-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The contribution of Cardinal Bedřich Egon of Fürstenberg to the building up of the picture collection of the Olomouc archbishops

Original language description

The text brings new findings regarding the collecting activity of Olomouc Archbishop Cardinal Bedřich Egon of Fürstenberg (1813–1892), whose acquisition activity in works of art has so far been in the shadow of his construction activities and has been unfairly undervalued. The article makes available the results of archival research. It is based, on the one hand, on the study of accounting documents, especially from Cardinal Fürstenberg’s longer stays in Rome, which have so far only been studied on a selective basis. It also makes available information unknown until recently, contained in the income and expenditure books of the Archbishop’s Secretariat from 1854–1873. The study of accounting documents has made it possible to enrich the list of Furstenberg’s acquisitions for the picture collection of Olomouc bishops and archbishops with several new items and attributions. In particular, however, it has shed new light on the archbishop’s acquisitions of works of art from his period in Rome. Cardinal Fürstenberg made purchases at select Roman antiquarians and maintained close contacts with the priest and senior Vatican official Marcello Massarenti Ordelaffi (1817–1905). In his time, this man, who mediated certain art purchases for the Archbishop of Olomouc, was one of the well-known collectors of the second half of the 19th century in Rome. Massarenti’s collection became the basis of the collection of American tycoon Henry Walters in Baltimore.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Opuscula Historiae Artium

ISSN

1211-7390

e-ISSN

2336-4467

Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

72

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

100-117

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85202928237