The Italian Platform for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Gian Paolo Consoli, Susanna Pasquali
Reticence, deliberate omissions and loss: how the Accademia di San Luca Archive responds to our searches in XVIII architectural history and Pierre Fontaine
The Archive of the Accademia di
San Luca in Rome is a well known
address to all scholars and students
interested in XVIII century architecture.
Here, instead of describing
what is possible to find, we point on
the missing documents, that we
group in three categories to whom
we assign the following titles: reticence,
deliberate omissions and
loss. Under the category of reticence
we have listed some contrasted elections
to the academic body that
have left no documents; under the
category of deliberate omissions we
present a unofficial story of some of
the Concorsi Clementini. Finally,
under the category of loss, we list all
information available on the opinions
requested to the Academy
about current architectural enterprises
in XVIII century Italy.