Ludwig Collection, 1967-1968

CREATED BY
Ludwig, Allan I.

DATES
1967 - 1968

RESOURCES TYPE
Photographic materials

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
In the 1960s, Allan I. Ludwig, an historian and photographer, played a critical role in the rise of interest in gravestone studies. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1933, Ludwig received his PhD in Art History from Yale in 1964.  After founding the scholarly field of gravestone studies, he was involved with the Association for Gravestone Studies beginning with the initial Dublin Seminar for New England Folk life in 1976. He received the AGS Forbes Award in 1980 in recognition of his contributions to gravestone studies.  Among other institutions, he has been a professor of Art History at Yale University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Dickinson College, and Syracuse University.  Though retired from academia, he continues to exhibit his photographic work at national and international venues.  His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Study Collection, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Chrysler Museum, and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), among others.

SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Ludwig Collection is a working-study collection which consists of hundreds of photographs related to the many Renaissance Roman tombs commissioned by the prelates of the fifteenth and early sixteenth-century churches. Ludwig focused his study on a group of Renaissance sculptors that included Mino da Fiesole, Andrea Bregno, Isaia da Pisa, Luigi Capponi, Antonio Pollaiuolo and Giovanni Dalmata among others.

ARRANGEMENT AND PROCESSING INFORMATION
The Allan I. Ludwig Collection includes contacts, photographic prints and duplicates. A selection from positives and contacts has been cataloged and digitized.
Prints are stored in folders organized by site in alphabetical order.
Photographs coming from a different archive (i.e. Alinari, Anderson, Seymour et al.) but collected by Allan I. Ludwig, have not been considered in the catalog and digitization processing.

CUSTODIAL HISTORY
The collection has been donated to the American Academy in Rome - Photographic Archive in 2007 by Ludwig's daughter, Dr. Katherine L. Jansen (FAAR 1995; RAAR 2014), Professor of History, Catholic University of America.

EXTENT
Ca. 2,800 negatives (cellulose acetate film, polyester film, black and white)
Ca. 300 contact sheets (21 x 29 cm)