Scholar · Cataloguer

Silvana Di Paolo

fl. 1995–2025 · Italy

Italian scholar and cataloguer, active 1995–2025. Worked with Elena Sorge and Fulvia Lo Schiavo; wrote with E. Gautier di Confiengo and M. Bettelli.

Life and work

  1. 2004
    With M. Bettelli, wrote the introductory notes on the Luigi Palma di Cesnola collection in the Museo Archeologico di Perugia (pp. 11-14) in Collezioni archeologiche cipriote in Italia I, with Vagnetti and Karageorghis.

    PerugiaGiven 2025

  2. 2004
    With M. Bettelli, wrote the account of the Corbelli and Pancrazi collections in the Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca, Cortona (pp. 65-70) in the same volume.

    CortonaGiven 2025

  3. 2007
    With Vagnetti and Bettelli, co-authored 'La collezione cipriota del Museo archeologico di Firenze nel quadro della storia e dell'archeologia di Cipro' (pp. 132-173).

    FlorenceGiven 2025

  4. 2010
    Published 'collezionismo di emulazione: la raccolta Colucci' on the Colucci collection of Cypriot antiquities in Florence: from Archivio Centrale dello Stato and Foreign Ministry papers she reconstructs Colucci's 1869-71 firman request and two shipments (130 + c. 114 pieces), notes Seiff's report of digs near Larnaca, finds that the Paphos provenance (Gamurrini 1873, Milani 1912) is unsupported by the donation papers or Schiaparelli's 1878 inventory, and asks whether Colucci emulated Cesnola's Paphos claims or bought from him.

    FlorencePaolo 2010

  5. 2011
    Published on Riccardo Colucci and the Cypriot antiquities of the Florence archaeological museum (SMEA 53, 55-67).

    FlorenceGiven 2025

  6. 2012
    Surveyed completed research and ongoing projects on Cypriot antiquities in Italy in 'From Italy to Cyprus and back again' (CCEC 42): includes a section on Colucci (born Alexandria 1814, d. Ragusa 1873; vice-consul Two Sicilies 1850; consul in Cyprus 1868-72; private papers held by heirs), a survey of the CNR project on Italian collections of Cypriot antiquities (1995-, CNR research module 2011-14), and the Florence collection of 459 objects (team: Di Paolo and M. Bettelli pottery and bronzes; G. De Tommaso Graeco-Roman pottery; F. Lo Schiavo bronzes; E. Sorge archive and display). Also edited a CNR volume on Near Eastern antiquities collecting in Italy.

    Paolo 2012, p. 14Given 2025

  7. from 2012
    Announced in press or in preparation: 'The Archaeological Activity of the Consul Riccardo Colucci' (SMEA 55); with E. Gautier di Confiengo 'Riccardo Colucci, a 19th Century Diplomat, Antiquarian, Archaeologist in Cyprus (1868-1872)'; and (Gautier di Confiengo alone) 'Note di archeologia cipriota dalle carte private del Console Riccardo Colucci' (SMEA 55).

    Paolo 2012

  8. from 2025
    With M. Iozzo, edits the forthcoming volume Cypriot antiquities in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence (Rome: Quasar), in which Soldi's two Cecconi chapters and (per Soldi) Di Paolo and Sorge's study of the Caremfilaki purchases appear; coordinated Soldi's study of the Florence Cypriot collection with Iozzo.

    FlorenceSoldi 2025, p. 18, p. 21

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.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.
  2. 2.M. Bettelli, S. Di Paolo (2004). “La collezione Luigi Palma di Cesnola nel Museo Archeologico di Perugia. Note introduttive”. Collezioni archeologiche cipriote in Italia I, 11-14. A.G. Leventis Foundation; CNR.
  3. 3.M. Bettelli, S. Di Paolo (2004). “Le collezioni Corbelli e Pancrazi nel Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca di Cortona”. Collezioni archeologiche cipriote in Italia I, 65-70. A.G. Leventis Foundation; CNR.
  4. 4.L. Vagnetti, M. Bettelli, S. Di Paolo (2007). “La collezione cipriota del Museo archeologico di Firenze nel quadro della storia e dell'archeologia di Cipro”. Egeo, Cipro, Siria e Mesopotamia. Dal collezionismo allo scavo archeologico in onore di Paolo Emilio Pecorella, 132-173. Livorno, Sillabe.
  5. 5.Silvana Di Paolo (2010). “"...dall'esempio dei suoi colleghi di Francia, Inghilterra e d'America..." ovvero il collezionismo di emulazione: la raccolta Colucci nel quadro dell'archeologia cipriota della seconda metà del XIX secolo”. Researches in Cypriote History and Archaeology, 75-83. Florence, Florence University Press.
  6. 6.S. Di Paolo (2012). “From Italy to Cyprus and back again. Completed research and ongoing projects”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 325-346.
  7. 7.S. Di Paolo (2012). “Contaminazioni nel collezionismo d'arte e d'antichità in Italia: il Vicino Oriente nel mercato antiquario del XVIII-XIX secolo”. Il collezionismo di antichità vicino-orientali in Italia: un rapporto tra pubblico e privato, 17-48. Rome, CNR, ISCIEVO.
  8. 8.S. Di Paolo (2012). “From Italy to Cyprus and back again. Completed research and ongoing projects”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 325-346.
  9. 9.Sebastiano Soldi (2025). “The Italian entomologist Giacomo Cecconi and Cyprus: a step towards the formation of the Cypriot collection in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 93-.
  10. 10.M. Bettelli, F. Lo Schiavo (2010). “La raccolta del Museo archeologico di Firenze nel quadro della storia del collezionismo di antichità cipriote in Italia”. Researches in Cypriote History and Archaeology, 85-94. Florence University Press.