Title & Author:

Antiquity recovered : the legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum / edited by Victoria C. Gardner Coates and Jon L. Seydl.

Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.

Description:

vii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Victoria C. Gardner Coates and Jon L. Seydl -- Natural marvels and ancient ruins : volcanism and the recovery of antiquity in early modern Naples / Sean Cocco -- Subverting the secret of Herculaneum : archaeological espionage in the Kingdom of Naples / Alden R. Gordon -- From art to archaeology : recontextualizing the images from the Porticus of Herculaneum / Tina Najbjerg -- Four women from Stabiae : eighteenth-century antiquarian practice and the history of ancient Roman painting / Hérica Valladares -- Hearing voices : the Herculaneum papyri and classical scholarship / James I. Porter -- Picnic at Pompeii : hyperbole and digression in the warm south / Chloe Chard -- The visible and the visual : Pompeii and Herculaneum in the Getty Research Institute collections / Claire L. Lyons and Marcia Reed -- The sentinel of Pompeii : an exemplum for the nineteenth century / Lee Behlman -- Science or morbid curiosity? the casts of Giuseppe Fiorelli and the last days of romantic Pompeii / Eugene Dwyer -- "A picture painted in fire" : Pain's reenactments of The last days of Pompeii, 1879-1914 / Nick Yablon -- Replicating Roman murals in Pompeii : archaeology, art, and politics in Italy of the 1920s / Elaine K. Gazda -- Seeing women in the Villa of the Mysteries : a modern excavation of the Dionysiac murals / Bettina Bergmann -- Odysseys of life and death in the Bay of Naples : Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy and Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt / Jennie Hirsh.

Summary:

'Antiquity Recovered' presents 13 diverse essays that trace how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations. They range in subject from a reassessment of the contents of the library at Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri, to the symbolic appearance of the ancient world in classic films.

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ISBN:

9780892368723 (hardback)
0892368721 (hardback)

Subject:

Excavations (Archaeology) Italy Pompeii (Extinct city)
Excavations (Archaeology) Italy Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Fouilles (Archéologie) Italie Pompéi (Ville ancienne)
Fouilles (Archéologie) Italie Herculanum (Ville ancienne)
Antiquities.
Civilization.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Ausgrabung
Kultur
Rezeption
Archeologie.
Receptie.
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Pompeii (Extinct city) Civilization.
Herculaneum (Extinct city) Civilization.
Naples Region (Italy) Antiquities.
Pompéi (Ville ancienne)
Herculanum (Ville ancienne)
Pompéi (Ville ancienne) Civilisation.
Herculanum (Ville ancienne) Civilisation.
Italy Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Italy Naples Region.
Italy Pompeii (Extinct city)
Herculaneum
Pompeji

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Gardner Coates, Victoria C.
Seydl, Jon L., 1969-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253075
Call No.: BIB 181270
Status: Available