Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy
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"Such satirical engravings were Piranesi's characteristic mode of attacking important antiquarian adversaries. His satire also reflects more profound disagreements with De Chaupy, the man and the scholar. We do not know if the two ever met, but if they did, they must have found very little in common. Piranesi was a member of Monsignor Giovanni Gaetano Bottari's anti-Jesuit circle of antiquarians." --"Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace's Villa (2001) by Ian Gordon Brown |
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Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy (1720 - 1798) was a French archaeologist. He was the object of "Satirical vignette against Bertrand Chaupy".
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