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Giovanni Pietro Campana 1808-1880

The man and his collection

£75.00
Author:
Susanna Sarti
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712581
Paperback:
298pp, Includes 51 black and white illustrations, 15 page bibliography, general and people indices
Sub-series name:
Beazley Archive - Studies in the History of Collections, 2
ISBN 10:
1841712582
BAR number:
S971
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
The Marchese Giovanni Pietro Campana was a Roman banker who formed one of the most important private collections of the first half of the 19th century. The Campana collection was an extraordinary assemblage of antiquities and modern arts and crafts, including maiolica, sculpture and painting from the medieval and Renaissance periods. This study is in two sections. The first is devoted to Campana's biography and to an examination of how he acquired and studied the objects in his collection; the second part is dedicated to the collection itself and its dispersal.