Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Volumes 1 and 2

Bignamini, Ilaria; Hornsby, Clare

ISBN 10: 0300160437 / ISBN 13: 9780300160437

Published by Paul Mellon Centre, 2010

About this Item

2 volumes in slip cover. Books are unread and in near fine condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Volumes 1 and 2
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300160437
• ISBN 13: 9780300160437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 22.86W x 27.94H x 5.08D centimeters 22.86 centimeters width by 27.94 centimeters height by 5.08 centimeters depth
• Weight: 3.13 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

This long-awaited book offers the first overview of all British-led excavation sites in and around Rome in the golden age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. Based on work carried out by the late Ilaria Bignamini, it traces sculptures and other works of art that are currently in public collections around the world from their original find sites via the dealers and entrepreneurs to the private collectors in Britain.

In the first of two extensively illustrated volumes, approximately fifty sites are analyzed in historical and topographical detail, supported by fifty newly written and researched biographies of the major names in the Anglo-Italian world of dealing and collecting. The second volume features hundreds of letters from dealers and excavators abroad to collectors in England, offering a rich source of information about all aspects of the art market at the time.

About the Author

The late Ilaria Bignamini was a historian of art and archeology. Clare Hornsby is Research Fellow at the British School at Rome.