Bartolomeo Cavaceppi
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