Ludwig Pollak e il Museo Biscari di Catania

• Autores: Maddalena Cima
• Localización: Bollettino d'arte, ISSN 0391-9854, Vol. 100, Nº. 28, 2015, págs. 113-130
• Idioma: italiano
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  • Ludwig Pollak and the Museo Biscari in Catania.

    In February 1925, Ludwig Pollak (1868–1943), an archaeologist of Czech origin, paid a visit to the Museo Biscari in Catania, then in a serious state of neglect. In December of the same year, he addressed a letter to the Direzione Generale delle Antichità e Belle Arti, in which he forcefully denounced the gravity of the situation.

    In this manner, Pollak began an activity of intensive research on the prestigious collection in close collaboration with Guido Libertini: while the latter focused chiefly on the study of the archaeological collections (besides his work for the acquisition of the collection on the part of the municipal government of Catania and its exhibition in the Castello Ursino), Pollak was occupied with the lesser–known post–antique objects in the museum. Libertini’s catalogue was published in 1930, but despite various announcements of publication, Pollak’s work never appeared.

    Important documents (manuscripts and typescripts), up to now unpublished, in the Ludwig Pollak archive conserved in the Museo Barracco in Rome, testify to the strenuous efforts made by the Prague scholar in his undertaking to analyze the extraordinarily different categories of post–antique artistic materials collected by Ignazio Paternò Castello, Prince of Biscari, and displayed in his palace museum inaugurated in May of 1758.