The last days of Pompeii : decadence, apocalypse, resurrection

The last days of Pompeii : decadence, apocalypse, resurrection / Victoria C. Gardner Coates, Kenneth Lapatin, Jon L. Seydl ; with contributions by Mary Beard, Adrian Stähli, William St. Clair and Annika Bautz.

Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually considered places where we can most directly experience the daily lives of ancient Romans. Rather than present these sites as windows to the past, however, the authors of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: J. Paul Getty Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Other Authors: Gardner Coates, Victoria C., Lapatin, Kenneth D. S., Seydl, Jon L., 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : [Cleveland] : The J. Paul Getty Museum ; The Cleveland Museum of Art, [2012]
Subjects:
Disasters in art > Exhibitions.
Art and history > Exhibitions.
Art, Modern > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Pompeii (Extinct city) > In art > Exhibitions.
Vesuvius (Italy) > Eruption, 79 > Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Decadence, apocalypse, resurrection / Jon L. Seydl
  • Pompeii on display / Kenneth Lapatin
  • On the cutting edge: Pompeii and new technology / Victoria C. Gardner Coates
  • The making of the myths: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii / William St. Clair and Annika Bautz
  • Dirty little secrets: changing displays of Pompeian "Erotica" / Mary Beard
  • Pompeii on the couch: the modern fantasy of "Gradiva" / Victoria C. Gardner Coates
  • Screening Pompeii: the last days of Pompeii in cinema / Adrian Stähli
  • Decadence
  • Apocalypse
  • Resurrection
  • Pompeii exhibitions.

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