Antonio Francesco Gori

Antonio Francesco Gori
Antonio Francesco Gori by Johann Jacob Haid
Born9 November 1691 Edit this on Wikidata
Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died20 January 1757 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 65)
Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Resting placeBasilica of St. Mark Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPriest, etruscologist, university teacher, archaeologist Edit this on Wikidata
Employer
Position heldprovost (1746–1757) Edit this on Wikidata

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]

  1. ^ 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).
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Scholarly societies: Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere la Colombaria Archived 16 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Gori, "Prefazione," Memorie di varia erudizione della Società Colombaria Fiorentina, Florence, 1747, vol. I, pp. XI-XII, quoted by the IMSS Multimedia Catalog.