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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Giorgio Nicodemi papers
Creator:
Nicodemi, Giorgio, 1891-1967
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0009
Physical Description:
11.2 linear feet
(28 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1884-1952
Abstract: This archive consists of Professor Giorgio Nicodemi's working files of readings (preprints, printed lectures, honorary essays,
etc.); photographs of artists' works (most annotated by Nicodemi); clippings; notes; small books and more ephemeral publications;
and a few letters and other correspondence, often tipped into relevant publications.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are primarily in English, some materials in Italian, German, and Polish.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Nicodemi Estate, circa 1968.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9925311743606533
[Identification of item], Giorgio Nicodemi papers (Collection 9). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Online finding aid created from paper register by Yana Demeshko, under the supervision of Courtney Dean, 2020.
When Nicodemi died, his collection of books and working files of readings and photographs were donated to the UCLA Art Library.
Through the years, these materials went through various reviews. Decisions were made to add books to the appropriate campus
collections, and the readings/photographs files were stored in the Belt Cage. At one point, Getty Photo Archivists were invited
to take those Nicodemi photographs appropriate for their collection; Nicodemi's notes attached to these photographs were left
behind and were stored with the remaining materials, which were taken out of their highly-acidic envelope folders and stored
on Belt Cage shelves. And finally, they were placed in document boxes in the same order in which they were found.
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Giorgio Nicodemi was an Italian museologist, essayist and art historian. He was born in Trieste on May, 29 1891 and dided
in Milan on June 9, 1967. In 1919, he became a director of the Civici Musei of Brescia and of the Biblioteca Queriniana, where
Nicodemi remained until 1928. In 1928, he became a director of the Civici Musei of Milan, including museums of the Castello
Sforzesco. From 1928 until 1938, Nicodemi also taught art history at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
This archive consists of Professor Giorgio Nicodemi's working files of readings (preprints, printed lectures, honorary essays,
etc.); photographs of artists' works (most annotated by Nicodemi); clippings; notes; small books and more ephemeral publications;
and a few letters and other correspondence, often tipped into relevant publications.
Materials retain their existing order. The character of these materials (often annotated by Nicodemi) tells us that Nicodemi
must have filed them in alphabetical order by author/scholar and, in the case of the photographs, by artist.
At an unknown date, Getty Photo Archivists were invited to take those Nicodemi photographs appropriate for their collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Nicodemi, Giorgio, 1891-1967 -- Archives