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Luigi Palma di Cesnola

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(1832-1904)

Luigi di Cesnola was the first curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, serving from 1879 to 1904. Life as a soldier, educator, and archaeologist prepared him for this role. Leland Stanford was a patron of the Met, and Cesnola greatly encourage Leland Stanford Jr.'s growing interest in Old World archaeology during the boy's 1883 New York trip and provided a letter of introduction for him to take to museums in Europe. After Leland Jr.'s death, Cesnola sold a large collection of duplicate materials from the Met to Leland Sr. The majority were Cypriot, but some Egyptian antiquities were included.

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