Speaker
Michele Asolati
(Università degli Studi di Padova)
Description
The numismatic collection of the Zane family has many extraordinary features in the panorama of 17th and 18th century Venetian collecting. Formed in the last decades of the seventeenth century and comprising only a few hundred antique gold coins, it seems to have been created almost by chance from local finds and preserved by three generations of Zane family members essentially as a means of social prestige and a value reserve. Dispersed on the British antiquities market in the second half of the 18th century, it became a part of the collection of King George III and is now in the British Museum.
Primary author
Michele Asolati
(Università degli Studi di Padova)
