Funding

This project received funding and operates thanks to the National Science Centre, Poland - OPUS 17 grant no. 2019/33/B/HS3/00959.

To see the details, follow the link.

Research Partners and Useful Websites

The collaboration with the following projects helps to investigate life and occupations of Philipp von Stosch and people from his cirlce:

Arachne Database (DAI) - among many other things, the database includes a complete set of impressions of Stosch's engraved gems purchased in 1764 by Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia. The impressions were made in 1826 by Carl Reinhardt an they are now kept in the Winckelmann Museum in stendal, please, visit the link.

Beazley Archive (Classical Art Research Centre), Oxford - The Beazley Archive in Oxford holds one of the most numerous collections of gem impressions and reproductions in various materials including a complete set of James Tassie's dactyliotheca based on Philipp von Stosch's own large collection of sulphur impressions of gems taken from all the European cabinets. Tassie's dactyliotheca as well as othr materials can be accessed online here.

Fontes Inediti Numismaticae Antiquae (FINA) Project - allows to investigate Stosch's correpondence as well as doing the cross-reference research as far as his transactions and discussions on engraved gems, coins and antiquities are concerned. FINA is a research platform primarily for investigation of the history of antiquarianism and numismatics, please visit project's website here. 

Epistolario di Anton Francesco Gori - online database including 10.000 of Gori's letters, including many sent or recevied from Stosch and contemporary connoisseurs of antiquities among others, to be accessed from this link.

Cooperation and Acknowledgments

Specific tasks within the project would not be completed without kind cooperation and help of the following people and institutions to whom we are deeply grateful for their support:

Prof. Dr hab. Andrzej Betlej - The Royal Wawel Castle in Krakow

Prof. Dr hab. Andrzej Szczerski - The National Museum in Krakow

Ewa Nogieć-Czepiel, Bożena Chmiel, Bożena König and Katarzyna Migacz - The Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow

Dr hab. Ewa Manikowska - Institute of Fine Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences

Dr Joachim Brandt and Jana Hettmann (B.A.) - Kunstbibliothek - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Dr Ilaria Ciolli, Dr Raffaella Vincenti, Dr Eleonora Gimapiccolo, Antonio Pagano - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome

Dr Agnes Schwarzmaier - The Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Dr Gabriella Tassinari - Università degli Studi di Milano

Prof. Maria Elisa Micheli - Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo

Prof. Marianne Maaskant-Kleibrink - University of Groningen

Dr Agata Pietrzak - The National Library, Poland

Dr Claudia Wagner - The Beazley Archive, University of Oxford

Karl-Magnus Brose - University of Virginia

Dr Lena Dmitrieva - The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

Jeroen Vandommele, Hein Maassen - The Royal Library of the Netherlands in The Hague

Paolo Turcis - Biblioteca Marucelliana in Florence