[Rarebooks] FS: Campana on Roman terracotta reliefs

[Clare Murphy]

CAMPANA, GIOVANNI. PIETRO, 1808-80.  ANTICHE OPERE IN PLASTICA. 
Rome., 1851, 2. Illustrated by 120 plates tinted, plus a large tinted 
vignette on title page. Second edition. 2 volumes. Vellum. Folio. 
Complete in this large book which contains both volumes. In the first 
half of the 19th century the Marquess G.P. Campana formed a large 
collection of Roman terracotta reliefs, and the type is still known 
by his name as 'Campana reliefs'. His collection was sold in 1861 and 
was dispersed, mostly to the Louvre, but also to the Hermitage and 
other museums. Campana was the first to discuss this type of relief 
in print. In 1842 he published Antiche Opere in Plastica, a work 
typical of the first half of the 19th century which devotes itself 
for the most part to mythological or antiquarian explanations of the 
scenes on the plaques. Campana was exiled and stripped of all his 
possessions for defrauding the government of money which he used to 
build his collections. The vellum is peeling from the boards with 
some loss. Contents complete and very good but for some soiling. Very 
scarce book.  $2600.00

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