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Museum director · Scholar

Giancarlo Conestabile della Staffa

d. 1877 · Italy

Italian museum director and scholar. Worked at Perugia.

Life and work

  1. 1873
    Published Ragguaglio di doni fatti alle diverse collezioni e alla biblioteca archeologica negli anni 1871-1872 (Perugia 1873); it records the museum's donations of 1871-72 and mentions no Cypriot pieces.

    PerugiaTatton-Brown 2001, n. 14

  2. 1875
    Received, as director, two cases from Luigi Palma di Cesnola sent from Cyprus to Conestabile's house in Perugia in summer 1875, holding over a hundred pieces from which the museum's 88-piece Cypriot collection derives; Luppatelli (1882) credits Conestabile with the donation, and the authors consider his date the more probable one (others date it to c. 1872, the London exhibition).

    PerugiaTatton-Brown 2001, nn. 11

  3. 1878
    Fabretti published a funeral eulogy of Conestabile (Perugia 1878).

    PerugiaTatton-Brown 2001, n. 11

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Cesnola's gift of Cypriot vases, stone and clay figurines and glass vessels; 88 pieces survive

    Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia1875Tatton-Brown 2001

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.G. Conestabile (1873). Ragguaglio di doni fatti alle diverse collezioni e alla biblioteca archeologica negli anni 1871-1872. Perugia.
  3. 3.A. Luppatelli (1882). Indicazione degli oggetti più importanti che si trovano nei Musei di Antichità etrusca, romana e medievale esistenti nelle Università di Perugia. Perugia.