{"id":93,"date":"2011-08-03T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bender.library.american.edu:8083\/archives\/?p=93"},"modified":"2011-08-03T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T16:34:32","slug":"hidden-treasures-in-special-collections-souvenirs-of-the-grand-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/hidden-treasures-in-special-collections-souvenirs-of-the-grand-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Treasures in Special Collections: Souvenirs of the Grand Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLiberotti, Giovanni. <em>Liberotti Impronte<\/em>. [Rome: Incisore di Camei Roma], circa 1820.<\/p>\n<p>American University Library Special Collections recently rediscovered a set of miniature plaster medallions in relief by master carver Giovanni Liberotti, depicting famous buildings, paintings, and sculptures covering the classical period through the Renaissance including the works of neoclassicists Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen and John Gibson. Works of art such as da Vinci\u2019s \u201cLast Supper,\u201d Bernini\u2019s \u201cApollo and Daphne,\u201d Titian\u2019s \u201cFlora\u201d and the famous Etruscan statue \u201cShe-Wolf Nursing Romulus and Remus\u201d and architectural treasures such as St. Peter\u2019s Square, the Parthenon, and the Colosseum are included.<\/p>\n<p>The medallions are mounted in twenty-five double-sided clamshell boxes which open as books. [Octavo, contemporary three-quarter vellum, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, red morocco spine labels, marbled sides and speckled edges.]\u00a0 The medallions measure between \u00be and 2\u00bd inches across. \u00a0On the front and rear pastedowns are numbered keys in contemporary Italian identifying each of the works. \u00a0\u00a0Accompanying the boxes is a handwritten English translation of the keys. \u00a0The medallions were sold as travel souvenirs to individuals making the Grand Tour. \u00a0It is likely that AU\u2019s founder, Bishop John Fletcher Hurst, acquired the medallions while he was studying in Germany.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberotti, Giovanni. Liberotti Impronte. [Rome: Incisore di Camei Roma], circa 1820. American University Library Special Collections recently rediscovered a set of miniature plaster medallions in relief by master carver Giovanni Liberotti, depicting famous buildings, paintings, and sculptures covering the classical period through the Renaissance including the works of neoclassicists Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen and John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}