CAMPO SANTO TEUTONICO, Museum of. - Begun as early as 1887 by Msgr. A. De Waal (d. 1917), rector of the college (v. COLLEGI ECCLESIASTICI: collegio teutonico presso s. Maria in Campo Santo). The two principal collections consist of Christian sarcophagi, for the most part fragmentary, and of pagan and Christian inscriptions, some of which come from the nearby Vatican basilica. The related acquisitions were often illustrated in the periodical also founded in 1887 by A. De Waal (v. RÖMISCHE QUARTALSCHRIFT); on the whole by the same author in the Katalog der Sammlung altchristlicher Skulpturen und Inschriften im deutschen National-Hospiz vom Campo Santo. Archäologie des Ehrengabe der Römischen Quartalschrift zu de Rossi's LXX. Geburtstag (Rome 1982, constituting the VI Supplementheft der Römischen Quartalschrift). An illustration of the sarcophagi was later given by J. Wittig, Die altchristlichen Skulpturen im Museum der deutschen Nationalstiftung am Campo Santo in Rom (ibid. 1906). The individual subjects were then examined by G. Wilpert, in his corpus of the Sarcofagi cristiani (1929-36). The small collection of gilded glasses was published by M. Armellini, I vetri dorati della collezione di Campo Santo, in Römische Quartalschrift, 6 (1892), pp. 52-57 and pls. II-III. The bronze and terracotta lamps were illustrated, according to their dates of acquisition, in the same periodical.

Enrico Josi

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