Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Volumes 1 and 2
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010
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Seller: Berthoff Books, Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.Berthoff Books
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Vol. I - 408 pages, Vol. II - 218 pages. The documentary study was published nearly a decade after Bignamini's death and completed by Hornsby on the basis of her notes. Additional researach by Irma Della Giovampaola and Jonathan Yarker. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Foreword by Professor Paolo Liverani in Italian, with English translation. Includes technical introduction, catalogue of sites, profiles of dealers, bibliography and index. From the jacket flap: ". . . the first overview of all British-led excavation sites in and around Rome . . . in the mid to late eighteenth century." Vol. I has many color illustrations - images of artifacts, maps of the sites from which artifacts were removed, biographies of the art dealers, and analysis of the Papal States administration. Vol. II comprises letters from the dealers and excavators to collectors in England. Imperial 8vo (~8.5 x 11"), green cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, slight bumps to a couple of the corners. Pictorial end papers, shown in images. Pictorial dust jackets have light shelf wear. Gift inscription on half-title; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Volumes 1 and 2
- Author
- Ilaria Bignamini, Clare Hornsby
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item weight
- 8 pounds
- Dimensions
- 5.08x22.86x27.94 cm
- Seller catalogs
- Archaeology, Art, European History
Berthoff Books
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