PHOTO ARCHIVE

Photo Library

Over the years the photo archive of the Federico Zeri Foundation has steadily increased. The main nucleus was Federic Zeri’s exceptional collection of 290,000 photos, to which various other sets have been added, all documenting works of art. The resource has thus grown until its present size of 435,000.

Zeri Collection

The photo archive is comprised of over 290,000 photos of artworks and monuments. Besides its rich Italian painting series, the kernel of the archive, it contains sizable core collections covering Still life, Italian sculpture, Archaeology, the Applied arts.

Other Photographic Collections

The assets of the Foundation grown thanks to donations of archives or photographic collections from scholars, collectors and photographers. Such materials are particularly interesting for art history research, and also expand and enhance the original nucleus of the Zeri photo archive.

Documents attached

The Federico Zeri Foundation archive is comprised of many documents found among the scholar's photographs. They are notes on his work, expertises, restoration reports, correspondence with collectors, antiquarians and scholars, pamphlets, extracts from journals or volumes, drafts of articles.

Activities

The Photo Archive has diversified its activities greatly over time. From cataloguing photographic materials, it has gone on to design databanks of the art history heritage, research into the field of digital humanities, and provide training and consultancy for libraries, photo archives and the archive sector.

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