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CICOGNARA, LEOPOLDO, COUNT (1767-1834)

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CICOGNARA, LEOPOLDO, See also:COUNT (1767-1834) , See also:Italian archaeologist and writer on See also:art, was See also:born at See also:Ferrara on the 17th of See also:November 1767. Mathematical and See also:physical See also:science diverted him a while; but his See also:bent was decided, and not even the' See also:notice of such men as See also:Spallanzani and Scarpa could make a savant of him. A See also:residence of some years at See also:Rome, devoted to See also:painting and' the study of the antiquities and galleries of the Eternal See also:City, was followed by a visit to See also:Naples and See also:Sicily, and by the publication, at See also:Palermo, of his first See also:work, a poem of no merit. The See also:island explored, he betook himself to See also:Florence, See also:Milan, See also:Bologna and See also:Venice, acquiring a See also:complete archaeological knowledge of these and other cities. In 1795 he took up his See also:abode at See also:Modena, and was for twelve years engaged in politics, becoming a member of the legislative See also:body, a councillor of See also:state, and See also:minister plenipotentiary of the Cisalpine See also:Republic at See also:Turin. See also:Napoleon decorated him with the See also:Iron See also:Crown; and in 18o8 he was made See also:president of the See also:Academy of the See also:Fine Arts at Venice, a See also:post in which he did See also:good work for a number of years. In 18o8 appeared his See also:treatise Del See also:bello ragionamenti, dedicated in glowing terms to Napoleon. This was followed (1813–1818) by his magnum See also:opus, the See also:Scoria della scultura dal suo risorgimento in Italia al secolo di Napoleone, in the See also:composition of which he had been encouraged and advised by See also:Giordano and Wilhelm See also:Schlegel (1767–1845). The See also:book was designed to complete the See also:works of See also:Winckelmann and D'See also:Agincourt, and is illustrated with 18o plates in outline. In 1814, on the fall of Napoleon, Cicognara was patronized by See also:Francis I. of See also:Austria, and published (1815–182o), under the auspices of that See also:sovereign, his Fabbriche piis cospicue di Venezia, two superb folios, containing some 15o plates. Charged by the Venetians with the presentation of their gifts to the empress See also:Caroline at See also:Vienna, Cicognara added to the offering an illustrated See also:catalogue of the See also:objects it comprised; this book, Omaggio delle Provincie Venele alla maestd di Carolina See also:Augusta, has since become of See also:great value to the bibliophilist. Reduced to poverty by these splendid editorial speculations, Cicognara contrived to alienate the imperial favour by his See also:political opinions.

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left Venice for Rome; his library was offered for See also:sale; and in 1821 he published at See also:Pisa a catalogue raisonne, See also:rich in See also:bibliographical See also:lore, of this fine collection, the result of See also:thirty years of loving labour, which in 1824 was See also:purchased en bloc by See also:Pope See also:Leo XII., and added to the Vatican library. The other works of Cicognara are—the Memorie storiche de'litterati ed artisti Ferraresi (1811); the Vile de' pHs insigni pittori e sculiori Ferraresi, MS.; the Memorie spettanti alla sloria della calcografia (1831); and a large number of See also:dissertations on painting, See also:sculpture, See also:engraving and other kindred subjects. (See Papoli, in No. 11 of the See also:Exile, a See also:print written and published by Italian refugees.). Cicognara's work in the academy at Venice, of which he became president in 18o8, had important results in the increase in number of the professors, the improvement in the courses of study, the institution of prizes, and the See also:foundation of a See also:gallery for the reception of Venetian pictures. He died on the 5th of See also:March 1834. See Zanetti, Cenni biografici di Leopoldo Cicognara (Venice, 1834) Malmani, Memorie del conk Leopoldo Cicognara (Venice, 1888).

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