![]() ![]() 300 cm, made out of various elements (Roman, 15th and 18th Century), after a design by Piranesi. 1-2 : Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1770-1778), Marble Candelabra, h. Yet on closer scrutiny they turn out to be very mysterious objects indeed, and they have undergone strange reversals of appreciation.įig. Recently investigated thoroughly and restored, they are now presented as conspicuous, if not typical, cases of the Neo-Classicist revival. ![]() From these fragments he constructed monumental vases, tripods, pedestals, and not in the last place three monumental candelabra: one, more than 3 meters high, intended for his own grave, now in the Louvre, and two others, slightly smaller but no less intricate, which he sold for the staggering sum of 1000 gold scudi to the British collector Sir Roger Newdigate, which were left to Oxford University. 1), made three monumental candelabra.See Nicholas Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the present day, 3 vols, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, vol. In the last decade of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1779), using the chaotic mass of muddy sculptural débris from Hadrian’s Villa he had found during an excavation in Pantanello near Tivoli in 1769 (fig. ![]() Smith, ‘Gavin Hamilton’s Letters to Charles Townley’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. ‘ A confused mixture of great part of the finest things of Hadrian’s Villa’This quotation is from Gavin Hamilton’s account of the excavation at Pantanello: G. This essay is a shorter version of the first two Slade Lectures I delivered in Oxford in January 2017.
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