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Antiquities official · Museum staff

Maria Cristina Preacco

fl. 2004–2011 · Italy

Italian antiquities official and museum staff member, active 2004–2011. Worked with Arturo Palma di Cesnola and Giampaolo Graziadio; wrote with M.L. Moncassoli Tibone.

Life and work

  1. 2004
    Co-author with M.L. Moncassoli Tibone of the catalogue 'Luigi Palma di Cesnola: Le gesta di un piemontese dagli scavi di Cipro al Metropolitan Museum' (Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, Turin), for the exhibition marking the centenary of Cesnola's death; the workshop around it is where Arturo Palma di Cesnola first publicly revealed the family's Cypriot collection.

    TurinCyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations 2021, p. 31Tibone & Preacco 2004, p. 102

  2. 29 November 2005
    Through the involvement of the Superintendence, and in particular of Maria Cristina Preacco, Arturo Palma di Cesnola's donation (357 objects, mostly glass, pottery and lamps) was formalised (SABAP-TO archive, Rep. 828 of 29.11.2005), confirming state ownership and permitting public exhibition at the Museo di Antichità, Turin.

    TurinCyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations 2021, p. 31

  3. 2011
    Published 'Le collezioni di antichità cipriote a Torino. Proposte per un percorso virtuale' in Jasink, Tucci and Bombardieri (eds), MUSINT, Florence University Press, pp. 263-270.

    Given 2025

Connections

4 people
Luigi Palma di CesnolaM.L. Moncassoli TiboneGiampaolo GraziadioArturo Palma di CesnolaMaria Cristina Preacco
ScholarshipColleagues

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1. (2021). Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations.
  2. 2.M. L. Moncassoli Tibone, M. C. Preacco (2004). Luigi Palma di Cesnola: le gesta di un piemontese dagli scavi di Cipro al Metropolitan Museum. Turin, Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte.
  3. 3.M.C. Preacco (2011). “Le collezioni di antichità cipriote a Torino. Proposte per un percorso virtuale”. MUSINT. Le collezioni archeologiche egee e cipriote in Toscana. Ricerche ed esperienze di museologia interattiva, 263-270. Florence University Press.
  4. 4.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  5. 5.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.