Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1 January 1845 – 22 May 1929[1][2]) was an Italian archaeologist, a pioneering student of ancient Roman topography. Among his many excavations was that of the House of the Vestals in the Roman Forum.[3][4]
Lanciani earned LL.D. degrees from Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Harvard and a Ph.D. degree from Würzburg.[5]
^Obituary in The New York Times "PROF. LANCIANI DIES; FAMOUS SCIENTIST; Was Long One of the World's Leading Archaeologists-- Reached Age of 82. REVEALED ANCIENT ROME Made Many Discoveries About Past in Excavation Work--An Italian Senator." May 23, 1929. p. 26.
^Necrology in "Archaeological News" by Edward H. Heffner and Chester C. McCown; E. P. B., in American Journal of Archaeology 34.1 (Jan., 1930), pp. 61–102. (Lanciani's biography appears on p. 62)
^"Lanciani, Rodolfo nell'Enciclopedia Treccani".
^http://arthistorians.info/liancianir Lanciani, Rodolfo in the Dictionary of Art Historians, Lee Sorensen, ed.
^"PROF. LANCIANI DIES; FAMOUS SCIENTIST; Was Long One of the World's Leading Archaeologists-- Reached Age of 82. REVEALED ANCIENT ROME Made Many Discoveries About Past in Excavation Work--An Italian Senator." May 23, 1929
Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1 January 1845 – 22 May 1929) was an Italian archaeologist, a pioneering student of ancient Roman topography. Among his many...
Atlas of Ancient Rome. Princetion University Press. pp. 379–380. RodolfoLanciani (1897). The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome. Boston, New York...
the coloured engraving shown on the right to mark this occasion. The RodolfoLanciani Collection in Bergamo, Italy, holds a number of plain or coloured prints...
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is known of what happened to it after Vespasian’s reconstruction. RodolfoLanciani believed that it could have been falling into ruins as early as the...
Season. Paulist Press. p. 46. ISBN 0-8091-3626-0. Retrieved 2016-07-19. RodolfoLanciani, Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries, 1898, chapter 5 'The...
side of the arch above the high altar. In the nineteenth-century, RodolfoLanciani recalled that at Christmastime the presepio included a carved and painted...
that both had been carefully buried in antiquity. The archaeologist RodolfoLanciani, who was present at the sculpture's discovery, wrote: I have witnessed...
2013-05-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) RodolfoLanciani (1897). The ruins and excavations of ancient Rome; a companion book...
Lanciani, 1897; p. 247 "The Roman Forum". world-archaeology.com. 4 September 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2020. Lanciani, 1897; p. 248 RodolfoLanciani (1899)...
decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.” Churches of Rome RodolfoLanciani, Pagan and Christian Rome, ch 1 "The Transformation of Rome from a...
Bulletin 68. 3 (September 1986: 379–397). RodolfoLanciani noted that they had been "martellati e distrutti" (Lanciani, "L'Iseum et Serapeum del Regione IX"...
by RodolfoLanciani in 1874 unearthed mass graves in the Esquiline area. These may have been the puticuli described by Varro. According to Lanciani, the...
sculptures excavated on Palatine Hill during the reign of Napoleon III. RodolfoLanciani razed the Farnese building in 1882 to allow a connection between the...
Vestals. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Portraits as vestals. RodolfoLanciani (1898) "The Fall of a Vestal" Chapter 6, in Ancient Rome in the Light...
superposed with the Basilicas, showing the tomb of Peter, and text by RodolfoLanciani describing the largely inadvertent archaeology. Lucentini, M. (31 December...
Dictionary of Ancient Rome". Oxford University Press. pp. 237–245. RodolfoLanciani (1897). The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome. Houghton Mifflin...
Roman Forum and its remains were uncovered by RodolfoLanciani in 1902. Italian archaeologist RodolfoLanciani discovered the remains of the altar in 1902...
statues were in many cases artistic masterpieces. In the 19th century RodolfoLanciani noticed ancient remains in building works in the area and found beautiful...
recovering works of art and antiquities. The plan and description given by RodolfoLanciani (Annali del institute, 1868, 144 sqq.) were made under unfavourable...
that the entire complex underwent a process of early abandonment. RodolfoLanciani determined that the front part of the baths had collapsed by the late...
(2017). Atlas of Ancient Rome. Princeton University Press. p. 347. RodolfoLanciani (1897). The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome. Houghton Mifflin...
Francesco Panini. Francesco Panini | Artnet RodolfoLanciani and His Archive: A Visual History of Rome – The RodolfoLanciani Digital Archive at Stanford...
(2017). Atlas of Ancient Rome. Princeton University Press. p. 297. RodolfoLanciani, Storia delle scavi a Roma (Rome) 1903, II, pp 169ff, 208ff. Piecing...
Lepsius (1869), Melchior de Vogüé (1879), Heinrich Schliemann (1885), RodolfoLanciani (1900) and Sir Arthur Evans (1909), and painters such as Lord Leighton...
in Florence. Moved to the Temple of Isis in Rome. Found in 1883 by RodolfoLanciani near Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Now commemorates the Battle of Dogali...
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