The sculptor Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716-1799) was perhaps the most important restorer of antiquities in Rome in the period of the Grand Tour. A strict collaboration with the Musei Capitolini and Cardinal Alessandro Algardi. He also worked with Gavin Hamilton and Thomas Jenkins, the two most important dealers of antiquities. In 1755, his encounter and long friendship with Johann Joachim Winclelmann, the “father of art history” resulted in a new conception of the restoration of

‘Il classico si fa pop. di scavi, copie e altri pasticci’ show (12/2018-5/2019) was inspired by the discovery in 2010-15 of the 18th-century workshop of Giovanni Volpato (1735-1803), the inventor of the classica souvenir for the Grand Tour. Born in Bassano del Grappa, Volpato moved to Rome in 1771 where he first founded a school of engraving. Through his connections in the city, he became an important collector and entrepreneur. He excavated with Gavin Hamilton and Thomas Jen