Antonio Francesco Gori | |
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 Antonio Francesco Gori by Johann Jacob Haid | |
| Born | 9 November 1691  Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
| Died | 20 January 1757 (aged 65) Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
| Resting place | Basilica of St. Mark |
| Occupation | Priest, etruscologist, university teacher, archaeologist |
| Employer | |
| Position held | provost (1746–1757) |
Antonio Francesco Gori, on his titlepages Franciscus Gorius (9 December 1691 – 20 January 1757), was an Italian antiquarian, a priest in minor orders, provost of the Baptistery of San Giovanni from 1746,[1] and a professor at the Liceo, whose numerous publications of ancient Roman sculpture and antiquities formed part of the repertory on which 18th-century scholarship as well as the artistic movement of neoclassicism were based. In 1735 he was a founding member of a circle of antiquaries and connoisseurs in Florence called the Società Colombaria,[2] the predecessor of the Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere la Colombaria,[3] to foster "not only Tuscan Poetry and Eloquence, or one faculty only; but almost all the most distinguished and useful parts of human knowledge: in a word, it is what the Greeks called Encyclopedia".[4]
- ^ Date from Dictionary of Art Historians Archived 13 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine); in this capacity he transcribed the description of the Baptistery by senator Carlo Strozzi (1587–1670), which is otherwise lost. (Gary M Radke, and Andrew Butterfield, The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece (2007:82).
- ^ the organising meeting, 15 May 1735, convened in the "Colombaria" tower in the founding member Giovanni Girolamo de' Pazzi's palazzo in Borgo degli Albizi.
- ^ Scholarly societies: Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere la Colombaria Archived 16 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gori, "Prefazione," Memorie di varia erudizione della Società Colombaria Fiorentina, Florence, 1747, vol. I, pp. XI-XII, quoted by the IMSS Multimedia Catalog.