The shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii AD 79 - Hardcover

Trevelyan, Raleigh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718115570 ISBN 13: 9780718115579

Publisher: Joseph, 1976

Synopsis

"The turn of fate which revealed the lost cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum began in 1710 when a peasant, digging a well, struck marble from the theatre of Herculaneum. The discoveries in the two centuries that followed produced a revolution in artistic taste, affecting furniture, decoration and art in the whole civilized world. Raleigh Trevelyan's vivid narrative gives a striking personal impression of this ghostly city. He gives, too, an entertaining history of the slow unfinished striptease of time which gradually, tantalizingly, is revealing one of the greatest storehouses of treasures the world has seen, the source of much of our knowledge of daily life in the Roman world. The book is enriched by many magnificent colour plates - a mixture of nineteenth century paintings and prints, and present-day photographs of Pompeii."

About this edition

• Publisher: Joseph
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0718115570
• ISBN 13: 9780718115579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128