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Abbé Luigi Celotti

Also known as: Abbé Luigi Celotti; primary name: Celotti, Luigi
Details: individual; cleric/religious official; dealer/auction house; Italian; Male
Life dates: 1759-1843
Biography: Abbé turned art dealer; sale of miniatures and single leaves cut from books in the Vatican Library at Christie's London 1825.
Bibliography: Anne-Marie Eze, ‘Abbé Celotti and the provenance of Antonello da Messina's 'The condottiere' and Antonio de Solario's 'Virgin and Child with St John', The Burlington magazine, vol. 151, no. 1279 (Oct. 2009), pp. 673-677. Anne-Marie Eze, Abbé Luigi Celotti (1759-1843): Connoisseur, Dealer, and Collector of Illuminated Miniatures, London: Courtauld Institute of Art, 2010 [doctoral thesis]. D.E.Ostergard (ed.), 'William Beckford an eye for the magificent', 1997 p.187