Author: Bignamini, Illaria
Title: Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome, 2 Volume Set
Description: New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Dark teal cloth boards with silver spine lettering, color-illustrated jackets with white lettering, decorative end papers. Plain white cardboard slipcase. 408, 214 pp. Color and BW illustrations. PHOTO IS NOT OF THIS BOOK FOR SALE, BUT IS A REPRESENTATION OF IT. "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." - Amazon. VG/VG/VG- light edge and corner wear to dust jacket. light wear and soiling to slipcase.

Keywords: Archaeology ; Excavations in Rome ; ;


See more books from our catalog: Archaeology