Antonio Francesco Gori, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antonio Francesco Gori

Italian antiquarian

Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1691

Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1757

Profession: priest, university teacher, antiquarian, etruscologist, censor, engraved gem researcher

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Antonio Francesco Gori, on his titlepages Franciscus Gorius (9 December 1691 – 20 January 1757), was a Florentine antiquarian, a priest in minor orders, provost of the Baptistery of San Giovanni from 1746, and a professor at the Liceo, whose numerous publications of ancient Roman sculpture and antiquities formed part of the repertory on which 18th-century scholarship as well as the artistic movement of neoclassicism were based.
In 1735 he was a founding member of a circle of antiquaries and connoisseurs in Florence called the Società Colombaria, the predecessor of the Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere la Colombaria, to foster "not only Tuscan Poetry and Eloquence, or one faculty only; but almost all the most distinguished and useful parts of human knowledge: in a word, it is what the Greeks called Encyclopedia".



Alternative names	Johann Jakob Haid, Johann Jacob Hayd
Description	German mezzotint engraver, portrait painter and publisher
Date of birth/death	1704	9 December 1767
Location of birth/death	Klein-Eislingen, Württemberg	Augsburg
Work location	Göttingen, Augsburg
Authority control	: Q1694808 VIAF: 27330078 ISNI: 0000 0000 8106 4612 ULAN: 500034394 LCCN: n82250571 GND: 116391839 WorldCat