Ancient sculptures from the draft book of Joseph Schöpf

The work is dealing with a draft book of the famous Tyrolean painter Joseph Schöpf (1745-1822) which was given to the local museum "Noaflhaus" in the early 1980s from private hand. The book is signed and dated "Joseph Schöpf F[ecit] Romae 1782" and contains 85 drafts showing 81 ancient and . 4 younger sculptures. Due to the date -1782 - we can reconstruct that the book was in use during his last year of studying at the famous "Accademia di San Luca" in Rome. Aim of this work was to identify the sculptures, the localisation of their place of exhibition now and then as well as the effects of his Roman studies that can be recognized in his later work. Especially interesting from archeological point of view is the fact that some of the sculptures at the time of being painted by Schöpf have not been restored yet or this was done in another way which we would not know unless the draft book would not tell us. This enables important conclusions to the "development" of some of the impressions the sculptures give us today. Another remarkable thing was the reconstruction of the ways some objects have taken from the 18th century until present time.