Carlo Fea (Pigna — now in Liguria, 2 February 1753 - Rome, 18 March 1836) was an Italian archaeologist. Pigna is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 110 km southwest of Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions Events 962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor Year 1753 ( MDCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Year 1836 ( MDCCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos
Fea studied law in Rome, receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of La Sapienza, but archaeology gradually attraccted his attention, and with the view of obtaining better opportunities for his research in 1798 he took orders. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Sapienza University of Rome ( Italian Sapienza Università di Roma) is a coeducational autonomous state university in Rome, Italy Year 1798 ( MDCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a 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 Chigi. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany Year 1799 ( MDCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a This page describes the political term "Jacobin" For discussion of the political organization of the French Revolution era see Jacobin Club. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( Regno delle Due Sicilie) commonly known as just the Two Sicilies, was the name of a Kingdom in Europe. 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. A statue is a Sculpture in the round representing a person or persons an animal or an event normally full-length as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size The Discobolus of Myron (" Discus thrower " Greek Δισκοβόλος "Diskobolos" is a famous Roman marble copy of a lost Bronze is any of a broad range of Copper alloys, usually with Tin as the main additive but sometimes with other elements such as Phosphorus Myron of Eleutherae ( Greek Μύρων) working c 480-440 BC was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-fifth century BC
Fea helped frame legislation to control the trade in, and excavation of, the antiquities of Rome, and undertook archaeological work on the Pantheon and the Forum there. The Pantheon ( Latin Pantheon, from Greek Πάνθειον Pantheon, meaning "Temple of all the gods" is a building in Rome This page refers to the main forum in the center of Rome See Imperial forums or Other forums in Rome (below for other forums in Rome and
Fea revised and annotated an Italian translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst, and also annotated some of the works of G. Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( December 9, 1717 - June 8, 1768) a German Art historian and Archaeologist, L. Bianconi. Among his original writings he is best known for: Miscellanea filologica, critica, e antiquaria; and Descrizione di Roma.
References
- Ridley, R. T. , 2000, The Pope's Archaeologist: The Life and Times of Carlo Fea, Quasar. ISBN 88-7140-177-8
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
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