VISCONTI. A family of Italian arch:polo gists and architects. GiovAxxi B.\TTISTA VISCUNTI ( 1712-84 ) , a native of Sarzana, settled at 1-tome and succeeded Winekelmann as prefect of an tiquities. He was employed by Clement X1V. and Pius VI. to collect works of ancient art for the musemn of the Vatican, the Masco Pio Glementino, as it was called. ENNIO fi,UIrrItio VISCONTI ( 1751-1SIS) eldest son of Giovanni, as a youth aided his father in the preparation of the first volume of the engravings of the Musco PM-Clementino. In 1754 he edited alone the second volume of the same series, and in 1787 was appointed conservator of the Capitoline The series of engravings of the Ilrr.sco was regularly issued. the seventh and last volume being published in 1807. During the French occu pation of Rome Visconti Nvas a member of the Government, but in 1799 was compelled to flee to France and settled in Paris, where he was made curator ill the Louvre. and professor of
arch:L.010 r. In 1801 appeared his great work, Iconographic grecqur, and this was fol lowed by the Iconographic romainc in 1817. In 1817 he went to London by express desire of the British Government, to appraise the value of the Elgin marbles (q.v.). and as a result of this visit published Ilenioirc sur h-s ourroges de sculpture dOr Partlit'non. He died in Paris, February 7, 1818. PIETRO EnCor.E VISCONTI ( , nephew of Louis Tullius Visconti (q.v.). after study ing at. the Papal arclueologima1 academy became in 1826 commissioner of antiquities, director of the collections in the Vatican, and professor at the University of Rome. He left uncompleted his History of the 1Vobie Families of Rome and the Papal States.