ABSTRACT
The supporting documentation for Gerolamo Garimberto’s collection falls into three categories: published accounts which either deal globally with the collection or else single out a specific object, inventories, both printed and manuscript, and engravings of individual statues, reliefs, and heads. There are several references to pieces owned by Garimberto in Pirro Ligorio’s Turin manuscripts, as well as one in a manuscript in Modena attributed to Enea Vico. The inventory is divided by type into nine sections, many of them containing subject headings. A total of forty-one statues or statuettes are recorded in the first part of the inventory, which is followed by a listing of twenty-eight male heads. The eleven female heads in section three interrupt the catalogue of the male heads which is picked up in section four, thus adding another nineteen to the twenty-eight previously recorded. In addition to price and measurement, the inventory provides qualitative information.
