Between the years 1982 and 1990, approximately 4,500 dives
have been dedicated to the study of the wreck of the Lomellina; the
information collected then is still being investigated and published. Excavations
on the Lomellina have represented a significant stage in the field
of underwater archaeology. During the exhibition entitled Archéologie
de la France, 30 ans de découverte [Archaeology in France,
30 years of discovery] which took place at the Grand Palais in Paris
in 1989, these excavations were listed among the 12 most important land and
underwater archaeological events of the last 30 years.
A first monograph was published by the CNRS: Archaeonautica #9/1989: Le
Navire gênois de Villefranche, un naufrage de 1516? [Did
the Genoese ship of Villefranche sink in 1516?]. This is still considered
as a work of reference for that period. A bilingual document in French and
Italian was also published in 2000 in Genoa with the support of the European
Commission: Les grands navires de la Renaissance [Great
ships of the Renaissance]. It devotes a large section to the Lomellina,
and is available on CD-Rom.
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Many scientific articles have been published. After a page
devoted to the Lomellina in the Encyclopaedia of Underwater and
Maritime Archaeology, published by the British Museum Press, another
article entitled The wreck of the Lomellina at Villefranche-sur-mer
came out in Excavating ships of war, a book published by the Oxford
University. The French Ministry of Culture also has an information page on
the Lomellina excavations on its underwater archaeology website.
Many conferences have taken place as well, in France and abroad (Italy, Denmark,
Canada, United States).
As for Villefranche, it hosted a scientific symposium in 1988 on 16th century
ships, in which Canadian and English researchers both participated (wrecks
of the Red Bay and the Mary Rose), together with an excavating
campaign on the wreck.
Several popular exhibitions were organised (in the cities of Ajaccio, Nice,
Paris, Nantes, Genoa, Villefranche-sur-mer, Istres, Livorno), the most important
of which, after the 1989 Paris exhibition, being Colombo 92, Genoa
hosted an international exhibition. The 50 square metres of the French pavilion
devoted to the Lomellina were visited by 1,800,000 people. In 2000,
an exhibition on the Grands Navires de la Renaissance [Great
ships of the Renaissance] was inaugurated in Genoa before being shown
in Villefranche-sur-mer and Istres.
French and international media have written numerous articles about the Lomellina
wreck. Among them, Geo magazine (issue #159 - May 1992) and the Italian magazine
Airone (issue #145 - May 1993) are worth noting. Also, Mr. Jean-Yves Blot's
book published in 1995 by Découverte-Gallimard, L'Histoire engloutie,
ou l'archéologie sous-marine [Engulfed history, underwater
archaeology] devotes a whole section on the Lomellina. It has
just been published in English and in Spanish. Finally, every television channel
in France has broadcast one or more programmes about the excavation campaign,
as for example the Telethon which took place in Villefranche-sur-mer, and
the programme by France-Culture called Archéologiques.
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Scientific publications |
- Max Guérout, Eric Rieth, Jean-Marie Gassend.
Le Navire génois de Villefranche, un naufrage de 1516?
[Did the Genoese ship of Villefranche sink in 1516?], Archaeonautica
#9/1989, 171 pages monograph.
- Eric Rieth -
L'épave du début du XVIème siècle de
Villefranche-sur-mer [The Villefranche early 16th century
wreck], Carvel Construction Technique, Oxbow Monographs, 12, Reinders,
R & Paul, K. (eds.), Oxford, 1991, p 47-55. 5
- Eric Rieth -
L'emplanture du grand mât de l'épave du début
du XVIème siècle de Villefranche-sur-Mer : un exemple d'emplanture
de tradition méditerranéenne, in Medieval ships
and the Birth of Technological Societies, vol. II, Villain-Gandossi, C.,
Busutti, S. & Adal, P. (eds.), Malta, 1991. p. 179 - 196.
- Max Guérout -
La coupe de la Lomellina, in Un goût d'Italie,
catalogue of the Argilla 93 exhibition, Aubagne, 1993. p.48.
- Max Guérout -
Encylopaedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology, articles,
Lomellina, London, 1997.
- Max Guérout, Eric Rieth -
The wreck of the Lomellina at Villefranche-sur-mer, in Excavating
ships of war, Oxford University Publication, Oxford, 1998, p.38-50
- Max Guérout, Pierangelo Campodonico, Salvatore Giannino -
Les grands navires de la Renaissance, (bilingual publication
: French-Italian), Genoa, 2000. 70 pages.
- Max Guérout -
L'épave de Villefranche-sur-mer, in Conservation-restauration
des uvres d'art - 30 ans d'activité d'ARC-Nucleart,
Grenoble, 2000, p.76-78
- Furio Ciciliot -
Della Navis Lomellina e del suo Legname – Lo sfruttamento dei boschi genovesi per uso navale (1500-1530), dans Navis, Numero 2/2000, p12-35.
- Arnaud Cazenave de la Roche -
Etude sur une cargaison de barriques mises au jour dans l’épave de Villefranche sur mer (1516 ?), Mémoire de Diplôme de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 2001. (non publié)
- Max Guérout-
Article Lomellina dans International Handbook of underwater archaeology, New-York, 2002, p. 441-442.
- Guérout Max -
Il rivestimento in piombo della nave « Lomellina » dans Pratiche e linguaggi - Contributi a una storia della cultura tecnica scientifica - Gênes – 2005, p. 9-26 (link to a french version document under development)
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Max Guérout