Antiquity recovered : the legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum /

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Imprint:Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2007.
Description:vii, 296 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6422303
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Other authors / contributors:Gardner Coates, Victoria C.
Seydl, Jon L., 1969-
ISBN:9780892368723 (hardback)
0892368721 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Natural Marvels and Ancient Ruins: Volcanism and the Recovery of Antiquity in Early Modern Naples
  • Subverting the Secret of Herculaneum: Archaeological Espionage in the Kingdom of Naples
  • From Art to Archaeology: Recontextualizing the Images from the Porticus of Herculaneum
  • Four Women from Stabiae: Eighteenth-Century Antiquarian Practice and the History of Ancient Roman Painting
  • Hearing Voices: The Herculaneum Papyri and Classical Scholarship
  • Picnic at Pompeii: Hyperbole and Digression in the Warm South
  • The Visible and the Visual: Pompeii and Herculaneum in the Getty Research Institute Collections
  • The Sentinel of Pompeii: An Exemplum for the Nineteenth Century
  • Science or Morbid Curiosity? The Casts of Giuseppe Fiorelli and the Last Days of Romantic Pompeii
  • "A Picture Painted in Fire": Pain's Reenactments of The Last Days of Pompeii, 1879-1914
  • Replicating Roman Murals in Pompeii: Archaeology, Art, and Politics in Italy of the 1920s
  • Seeing Women in the Villa of the Mysteries: A Modern Excavation of the Dionysiac Murals
  • Odysseys of Life and Death in the Bay of Naples: Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy and Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt
  • Index
  • Contributors