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Antiquity recovered : the legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum
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Antiquity recovered : the legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum

Author: Victoria C Gardner Coates; Jon L Seydl
Publisher: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Victoria C Gardner Coates; Jon L Seydl
ISBN: 9780892368723 0892368721
OCLC Number: 71810100
Notes: Includes index.
Description: vii, 296 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: edited by Victoria C. Gardner Coates and Jon L. Seydl.
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