Conte Conte may refer to: * Conte (literature), a literary genre * Conte (surname) * Conté, a drawing medium * Conte, Jura, town in France * Conté royal family, a fictional family in Tamora Pierce's Tortallan world * Conte, the title of Count in Italy ...

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 ( it, Villa Adriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large villa complex built c. AD 120 by Roman Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli outside Rome. The site is owned by the Republic of ...

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 Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (c. 1716 – December 9, 1799) 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 restor ...

before 1768, and Cavaceppi included sculptures found by Fede in his ''Raccolta''.Cavaceppi, ''Raccolta'', I, plates 32 and 33

References

Primary sources

* Winckelmann, ''Briefe'', Numbers 150, 486, I, 455 (bibl.) *

Johann Bernoulli Johann Bernoulli (also known as Jean or John; – 1 January 1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educating L ...

, ''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 Lippold Georg Lippold (21 February 1885 – 23 July 1954) was a German classical archaeologist born in Mainz. Lippold was a specialist of ancient Greek and Roman art. He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Munich. He was one of the last students of ...

, ''Die Skulpturen des Vatikanischen Museums'' (1936), III, 2, pages 107-108, 558 ("dall eridita del Conte Giuseppe Fede...1777") * Friedrich Noack, ''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 Studies ''Eighteenth-Century Studies'' is an academic journal established in 1966 and 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 ...

'' (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 1777 deaths Italian antiquarians Italian archaeologists Italian art collectors Counts of Italy Year of birth unknown {{Italy-archaeologist-stub