id
	11659
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/11659
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	From decoration to documentation. The Helbig-Jacobsen facsimiles and their afterlife
Creator
	Moltesen, Mette
Date
	2019
Language
	eng
Abstract
	The Danish industrialist and brewer Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914) became interested in Etruscan culture through his long collaboration with the German archaeologist Wolfgang Helbig (1839-1915), and he made it his project to introduce the Etruscans to the Danish public in what he named The Helbig Museum. As the unique Etruscan tomb paintings were quickly deteriorating, Jacobsen decided to sponsor a complete series of facsimiles of all Etruscan paintings. In this he followed the example of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, from whom he also took the name Glyptotek for his museum, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Helbig collected a group of painters and managed the work in Etruria while Jacobsen paid the expenses in Copenhagen. The project lasted from 1895 to 1913 and comprised sketches, tracings and facsimiles of all the then known painted tombs in Tarquinia, Chiusi, Veji, and Orvieto.
Is Part Of
	Mélanges de l'École française de Rome : antiquité
Cited by
	11062
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.4000/mefra.8172
Issn
	0223-5102
Issue
	131-2
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/Y9Z5BAQ5/item-list
Tag
	Alessandro Morani
	Carl Jacobsen
	Helbig Museum
	Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
	Wolfgang Helbig

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