School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Anne-Claude-Philippe de Caylus , Comte
(de Tubières de Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis)

Born: 1692, France, Paris   Died: 1765, France

Antiquarian, archaeologist and printmaker. Caylus came from a priviledged family and spent time in the military as an officer but resigned his commission to devote himself to art and archaeology in 1715. He became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1731. He documented French ancient monuments and rediscovered the process of encaustic painting, which he described in his seven volume work, 'Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étruscanes, grecques et romaines'. This work is credited by many as being the foundation of archaeology as a scientific discipline. He was also an admirable etcher during a period where etching was almost eclipsed by engraving, and produced at least 3,200 etchings mostly based on copies after the great masters

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Pastoral landscape with shepherds, cattle, sheep, trees and a town with domes and towers] PR382 Prints




 
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