Dictionary of Art Historians

Visconti, Ennio Quirino

Full Name
Visconti, Ennio Quirino
Gender
male
Home Country
Italy
Subject Area
Ancient Greek (culture or style)
Greek sculpture styles
museums (institutions)
sculpture (visual works)
Career
directors (administrators)
museum directors
directors (administrators)
Overview

Museum director, wrote early history of Greek sculpture. Together with T.-B. Éméric-David he collaborated to further alter the assumption that Greek sculpture of the 5th and 4th centuries was an era of decline, as Johann Joachim Winckelmann had written.

Selected Bibliography
and Croze-Magnan, S. C., and Robillard-Pe´ronville, and E´me´ric-David, Toussaint-Bernard, and. Laurent, Henri. Le Muse´e francçais: recueil complet des tableaux, statues et bas-reliefs, qui composent la collection nationale: avec l'explication des sujets, et des discours historiques sur la peinture, la sculpture et la gravure. Paris: Imprimerie de L.-E. Herhan, 1803-1809.
Sources
Potts, Alex. "Visconti, Ennio Quirino ." Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 1173-1176.