Carlo Fea was an Italian

Italy

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 archaeologist.

Born at Pigna

Pigna, Liguria

Pigna is a comune in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 110 km southwest of Genoa and about 30 km west of Imperia, on the border with France...

, in what is now Liguria

Liguria

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, Fea studied law in Rome

Rome

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, receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of La Sapienza

University of Rome La Sapienza

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, but archaeology gradually attracted his attention, and with the view of obtaining better opportunities for his research in 1798 he took orders. For political reasons he was forced to take refuge in Florence

Florence

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; on his return to Rome in 1799 he was imprisoned as a Jacobin

Jacobin (politics)

A Jacobin , in the context of the French Revolution, was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary far-left political movement. The Jacobin Club was the most famous political club of the French Revolution. So called from the Dominican convent where they originally met, in the Rue St. Jacques ,...

 by the Neapolitans, who at that time were occupying Rome, but was shortly afterwards freed and appointed Commissario delle Antichità and librarian to Prince Chigi. At Rome in 1781 Fea discovered a statue

Statue

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 of a discus throw

Discus throw

The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

er, the so called "Discobolus

Discobolus

The Discobolus of Myron is a famous Greek sculpture that was completed towards the end of the Severe period, circa 460-450 BC. The original Greek bronze is lost...

", one of the known Roman copies of the famous Greek original statue in bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

 created by Myron

Myron

Myron of Eleutherae working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher....

.

Fea helped frame legislation to control the trade in, and excavation of, the antiquities of Rome, and undertook archaeological work on the Pantheon

Pantheon, Rome

The Pantheon ,Rarely Pantheum. This appears in Pliny's Natural History in describing this edifice: Agrippae Pantheum decoravit Diogenes Atheniensis; in columnis templi eius Caryatides probantur inter pauca operum, sicut in fastigio posita signa, sed propter altitudinem loci minus celebrata.from ,...

 and the Forum

Roman Forum

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 there.

Fea revised and annotated an Italian translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art...

's Geschichte der Kunst, and also annotated some of the works of G. L. Bianconi. Among his original writings he is best known for: Miscellanea filologica, critica, e antiquaria; and Descrizione di Roma.

He died in Rome in 1836.