Garrucci, Raffaele

Roman Catholic; b. at Naples, Jan. 23, 1812; d. at Rome, May 5, 1885. He was a Jesuit, and a famous archaeologist, especially in iconography. He devoted himself almost entirely to the history of early Christian art, but at the time of his death he had just completed a history of Italian coinage from its origin to the present time. Of his other great works may be mentioned, Monumenia reipublicw Ligurum Bozbianorum, Rome, 1847; Monumenli del Museo Laterananse, 1861; Storia dell'Arte Cristiana nei primi otto secoli dell a Chiesa, Prato, 1872-80, 6 vols. He wrote also many di ertations on minor subjects. See American Journal of Archaeology, i. 309. * c.