Giglioli, Giulio Quirino

Date born: 1886

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Date died: 1956

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Art historian of classical Roman and Etruscan art; associated with Fascism in Itlay. Giglioli studied under Emanuel Löwy (q.v.) and Rudolfo Lanciani (q.v.). He fought as a solider in World War I. While on leave, he published the Apollo of Veii in 1916. After the war, he occupied the chairs of ancient topography, beginning in 1923, and classical art history, 1925, at the University of Rome. He was elected a city councilor and in 1935, parliamentary deputy to Rome. As an art historian, he worked on excavations as well as the restorations of the Mauoleum and Forum of Augustus. He published the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum fascicules for the Villa Giulia and the Capitoline Museum. He also issued a major study of etruscan art, Arte etrusca, 1935. All this required in the 1930s an allegiance to fascism and Mussolini. After Mussolini's fall in 1943, Giglioli returned to his chair at the University, founding the classical studies journal Archeologia Classica in 1948. His teaching inspired students including Massimo Pallottino, who went on to be one of the founders of Etruscan studies as a discipline.

Home Country: Italy

Sources: Ridgway, F. R. "Giglioli, Giulio Quirino." Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 502

Bibliography: L’arte etrusca. Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1935; Arte greca. 2 vols. Milan: F. Vallardi, 1955; Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Italia. Museo nazionale di Villa Giulia in Roma. 1925ff. 1-3, 64; Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Italia. Musei capitolini di Roma. 1962, 36, 39.