Bidspirit auction | Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Russia. Attic

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Russia. Attic Black-Figured Vases, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Vol. 1 edited by N. Sidorova - Rome, L'erma di Bretsschneider, 1996. 92 pp., il., 33 by 24 cm Hardcover book in good condition and the pages inside the book are clean. Ex-Library book. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (”corpus of ancient vases”; abbreviated CVA) is an international research project for documentation of ancient ceramics. Its original ideal target content: any ceramic from any ancient location during any archaeological period, proved impossible of realization and was soon restricted to specific times and periods. CVA is the first and oldest research project of the Union Académique Internationale, a federation of academies (national institutions of an advisory scientific character) from 61 countries. The Union was the inspiration of Edmond Pottier, at the time Curator of Antiquities at the Louvre, the national museum of France (and former royal palace). His interest in the Union, however, went beyond antiquities to any international scientific project. He called a meeting of representatives from any interested academies in Paris for May, 1919. The meeting voted the Union into existence. The meetings in 1919 were foundation meetings. At its end 11 countries had joined, the six mentioned above plus Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and the United States. In addition three more were under contract, but had not sent representatives: Spain, Norway and Romania. The first assembly of the academies was not until 1920. Operations were to center around research projects, given sequential numbers in order of adoption. Five projects were proposed initially; three were voted, Project Number 1 being the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. The final decision was to publish a comprehensive catalogue of painted ancient Greek vases. He was also the publisher of the first fascicle for the Louvre in 1922. At that time six countries were part of the project. Today the project covers a compendium of more than 100,000 vases located in collections of 26 participating countries. At present day only public collections located in museums are added to the catalogue. English Edition. Rare to find & sold out book.