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Carlo Fea
Born4 June 1753 Edit this on Wikidata
Pigna Edit this on Wikidata
Died18 March 1836 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 82)
Rome, Papal States
Alma mater
OccupationArt historian, archaeologist, classical archaeologist Edit this on Wikidata

Carlo Fea (4 June 1753 - 18 March 1836) was an Italian archaeologist.

Biography

Born at Pigna, in Liguria, Fea studied law in Rome, receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of La Sapienza, but archaeology gradually attracted his attention, and with the view of obtaining better opportunities for his research in 1798 he took Holy Orders and became an Abbott. For political reasons he was forced to take refuge in Florence; on his return to Rome in 1799 he was imprisoned as a Jacobin by the Neapolitans, who at that time were occupying Rome, but was shortly afterwards freed and appointed Commissario delle Antichità and librarian to Prince Sigismondo Chigi.[1][2] At Rome in 1781 Fea discovered a statue of a discus thrower, the so-called "Discobolus", one of the known Roman copies of the famous Greek original statue in bronze created by Myron.[3]

Fea helped frame legislation to control the trade in, and excavation of, the antiquities of Rome, and undertook archaeological work on the Pantheon[4] and the Forum there.

Fea revised and annotated an Italian translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst, and also annotated some of the works of Giovanni Ludovico Bianconi.[5] Among his original writings he is best known for: Miscellanea filologica, critica, e antiquaria; and Descrizione di Roma Antica e Moderna.[1][6]

Despite being qualified to do so, Fea never used the title of Abbott but rather that of a lawyer (Avv).

He died in Rome on the night of March 17, 1836, in the Palazzo Chigi.[2]

Works

Compendio di ragioni per la illustrissima communità di Frascati (1830)

References

  1. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fea, Carlo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 220.
  2. ^ a b Ronald T. Ridley (2000). The Pope's archaeologist: the life and times of Carlo Fea. Quasar. ISBN 9788871401775.
  3. ^ Mark Jones; Paul T. Craddock; Nicolas Barker (1 January 1990). Fake?: The Art of Deception. University of California Press. pp. 140–. ISBN 978-0-520-07087-5.
  4. ^ Susanna Pasquali (1996). Il Pantheon. Franco Cosimo Panini. ISBN 978-88-7686-576-3.
  5. ^ Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Johann Winckelmann (2006). History of the Art of Antiquity. Getty Publications. pp. 45–. ISBN 978-0-89236-668-2.
  6. ^ *Fea, Carlo (1820). Nuova Descrizione di Roma Antica e Moderna e de suoi Contorni Volume 1. 1980. Torchi di Crispino Puccinelli nel Negozio Piale in Piazza dis Spagna N. IA. e da Giovanni Scudellari Via Condotti N. 19 e 20, al prezzo di Paoli 18. pp. 289–290.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Ripubblicato in Miscellanea II.
  8. ^ Carlo Fea (1821). Ragionamento dell'avv. d. Carlo Fea commissario delle antichita' sopra le terme Tauriane il tempio di Venere e Roma il foro di Domiziano e d'Augusto ec. Letto nell'Accademia Archeologica il di 11. gennaro 1821. presso Francesco Bourliè.

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