Cyriacus of Ancona
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Cyriacus of Ancona or Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli was a humanist and antiquarian who came from a prominent family of merchants in Ancona, a maritime republic on the Adriatic coast of the Italian Peninsula.
Portrait of Cyriacus, fresco, 1459
Portrait of Cyriacus, relief carving
The oldest surviving drawing of the Parthenon, an ancient copy of the original by Cyriacus of Ancona, is found in Manuscript Hamilton 254, a fifteenth-century volume preserved in the Berlin State Library
Parthenon. Its true nature was rediscovered by Cyriacus in 1436
Joseph's granaries
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Joseph's granaries is a designation for the Egyptian pyramids often used by early travelers to the region. The notion of a granary being associated with the Hebrew patriarch Joseph derives from the ac
Cyriacus of Ancona
…exploring in Greece and Egypt. In 1435, Cyriacus visited and rediscovered the true nature of the Great Pyramid, which until then was believed to be one of Joseph's granaries and in 1436 that of the Parthenon, which until then was considered only the largest church in Athens. He was probably the first traveller who recognized…
Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh's Granaries by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1874)
Pyramids at Giza as rendered by David Roberts (1846)
View across the Nile by David Roberts (1846)
View of the Pyramids by Olfert Dapper (1670)