Philipp von Stosch: Collecting, Drawing, Studying and Publishing Engraved Gems

Paweł Gołyźniak works as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His research interests include engraved gems (ancient and neo-classical), Roman Republican and Augustan numismatics, history of antiquarianism, collecting and scholarship and the legacies of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757) and Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755). Author of Ancient Engraved Gems in the National Museum in Krakow (2017) and Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus (2020). Ulf R. Hansson is Director of the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and Sr Research Fellow in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. A classical archaeologist and cultural historian of ancient and early modern Italy, his research interests include classical and post-classical engraved gems, history of antiquarianism and archaeology, history of collecting and collections, and classical reception. He is the author of A Globolo Gems. Late Etrusco-Italic Scarab Intaglios (2005) and several articles and book chapters on Stosch and on the study of ancient glyptic. Hadrien J. Rambach is an antiquities advisor, currently enrolled as a PhD student researching coin collectors of the 18th century. He has published numerous articles devoted to the Roman, Renaissance and Neoclassical numismatics and glyptics, and especially to the history of collecting.