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GIOVANNI DOMENICO CAMPIGLIA

Lucca 1692 — 1768 ? Rome

Bust of Apollo

black chalk. 115/8 x 71/2" (295 x 190mm) (drawn borders, full sheet is larger).

After training in his native Tuscany, Campiglia settled in Rome in 1716. He was often engaged as draughtsman and engraver copying antique sculptures and gems in Roman collections. For the Grand Duke of Tuscany he was also employed drawing antiquities to illustrate the six volumes of Anton Francesco Gori's Museum Florentinium, published in 1731 and 1742. He provided drawings and engravings for Giovanni Bottari's celebrated Musei Capitolini of 1741 and 1755. He was often commissioned by the English and was well known for his group portraits of visitors to Rome. His very refined, highly finished drawings after the antique such as the present example earned him much esteem. Many of these drawings are preserved in the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi, in the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe in Rome, in the library of Eton College, and in the Walker Art Gallery of Liverpool.1
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Hiesinger and Percy, A Scholar Collects, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1980, p. 64.