Collector · Donor

Guido Corbelli

1841–1903 · Italy

Catholic prelate, Apostolic Delegate for Arabia and Egypt. Lived at Alexandria. Gave to Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca, Cortona.

Life and work

26 June 1894
Second shipment from Alexandria (160 objects) to the Academy; four of the five Cypriot vases of the Corbelli group were in it, the fifth added two years later.
AlexandriaTatton-Brown 2001, p. 137

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Material published by Ernesto Schiaparelli1893
Collection catalogued by V. G. Botti1955

Objects

five Cypriot vases (Base Ring jug no. 3289; double painted vase no. 264; a probable Black Lustrous Wheel Made jug or Palestinian juglet; others)
Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca, Cortona 3289; 2641894–1896Tatton-Brown 2001

Sources

1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
2.Wikidata: Guido Corbelli (Q64733858). Online