Giuseppe Fede
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Giuseppe Fede (died 1777) was an Italian nobleman, collector and archaeologist of the 18th century. As early as 1724 he started to buy up parcels of land on the site of Hadrian's Villa
at Tivoli
(which had become divided up among a multitude of owners) and excavate on them. Like his father, he was a collector-excavator who retained some of the sculptures he excavated for himself whilst releasing others onto the antiquarian market
He had at least four of the sculptures he found restored by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi
before 1768, and Cavaceppi included sculptures found by Fede in his Raccolta.
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Giuseppe Fede (died 1777) was an Italian nobleman, collector and archaeologist of the 18th century. As early as 1724 he started to buy up parcels of land on the site of Hadrian's Villa
Hadrian's Villa
The Hadrian's Villa is a large Roman archaeological complex at Tivoli, Italy.- History :The villa was constructed at Tibur as a retreat from Rome for Roman Emperor Hadrian during the second and third decades of the 2nd century AD...
at Tivoli
Tivoli, Italy
Tivoli , the classical Tibur, is an ancient Italian town in Lazio, about 30 km east-north-east of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine hills...
(which had become divided up among a multitude of owners) and excavate on them. Like his father, he was a collector-excavator who retained some of the sculptures he excavated for himself whilst releasing others onto the antiquarian market
He had at least four of the sculptures he found restored by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi was an Italian sculptor who worked in Rome, where he trained in the studio of the acclimatized Frenchman, Pierre-Étienne Monnot, and then in the workshop of Carlo Antonio Napolioni, a restorer of sculptures for Cardinal Alessandro Albani, who was to become a major patron of...
before 1768, and Cavaceppi included sculptures found by Fede in his Raccolta.
Primary sources
- Winckelmann, Briefe, Numbers 150, 486, I, 455 (bibl.)
- Johann Bernoulli, Sammlung kurzer Reisebeschreibungen und anderer zur Erweiterung der Länder-und Menschenkenntnis dienender Nachrichten (Berlin, Altenburg & Berlin, Leipzig, Berlin & Dessau, 1781-1782), II, 607
- Carlo Pietrangeli, Scavi e scoperte di antichita sotto il pontificato di Pio VI (1700), plates 146-148
Secondary sources
- Georg LippoldGeorg LippoldGeorg Lippold was a German classical archaeologist who was a native of Mainz. Lippold was a specialist of ancient Greek and Roman art....
, Die Skulpturen des Vatikanischen Museums (1936), III, 2, pages 107-108, 558 ("dall eridita del Conte Giuseppe Fede...1777") - Friedrich NoackFriedrich NoackFriedrich Noack, who wrote under the pseudonym F. Idus, was a German cultural historian and author, who wrote several articles for the Künstlerlexikon Thieme-Becker....
, Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters II, 160, 202 (passage about Giuseppe's father) - Seymour Howard, 'An Antiquarian Handlist and Beginnings of the Pio-Clementino', Eighteenth-Century StudiesEighteenth-Century StudiesEighteenth-Century Studies is an academic journal established in 1966 and is the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. It focuses on all aspects of 18th century history. It is related to the annual Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture...
(The Johns Hopkins University Press), 1973, p54 - Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press) 1981