Bequests and collections

This is the private archive of the Spanish painter, a valuable and essential resource for advancing the study and understanding of his work.

1468: Bessarion (548 Greek manuscripts, 337 Latin manuscripts, and 27 incunabula)

1589: Melchiorre Guilandino of Marienburg (2,200 printed books).

1595: Giacomo Contarini (coming into effect only in 1713, upon the extinction of the family; 175 manuscripts and 1,500 printed works).

1619: Girolamo Fabrici d’Acquapendente (13 volumes containing valuable coloured anatomical plates)

1624: Giacomo Gallicio (20 Greek manuscripts).

1734: Gian Battista Recanati (216 manuscripts, including the “Franco-Venetian” codices of the Gonzaga family)

1792: Tommaso Giuseppe Farsetti (350 manuscripts and printed books).

1797: Jacopo Nani (over 1,000 manuscripts, largely Greek and Oriental).

1814: Girolamo Ascanio Molin (2,209 printed works of great value).

1819–1877: Iacopo Morelli (comprising 600 manuscripts and several bundles of notes and studies, as well as 1,243 printed pamphlets; with the subsequent acquisition of 131 bundles of papers and codices).

1843: Girolamo Contarini (906 manuscripts and 4,000 printed books).

1861: Carlo Ghega, or Karl Ritter von Ghega (274 manuscript and printed works).

1904: Giovan Battista Cavalcaselle (14 boxes of notes, drafts, and drawings, as well as several folders and a collection of books and pamphlets).

1912: Teza (approximately 30,000 volumes, largely relating to Eastern civilisations).

1968: Tursi (approximately 15,000 volumes by foreign travellers in Italy).

1983: Alberto Prandi (500 works, including monographs, pamphlets, and periodicals published between 1964 and 1975 by alternative publishers).

1997: Ulrich Middeldorf (156 works relating to Casanova, as well as folders and albums).

1998: Jean-Pierre Selz (1,600 French volumes from the twentieth century, collected by Léopold Léon Steindecker, known by the pseudonym Léon Pierre-Quint).