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Beginning in 1709, when their antiquities first were recovered, Pompeii and Herculaneum have exercised the historical imagination of the West. This volume presents a diverse array of response to the sites, tracing how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations, what the editors call "the strata of interpretation." The thirteen essays 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 such films as Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy and Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt.
Antiquity Recovered explores the complexities of "the reception of the past" and helps enhance our understanding of the roles these cities have played, and continue to play, in Western culture.
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About the Author
Victoria C. Gardner Coates is a lecturer in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jon L. Seydl is associate curator of paintings at the Getty Museum.
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“There is much to recommend this collection of essays, which represents a variety of approaches to Pompeii and Herculaneum’s reception. . . . The contributors reveal much of the powerful pull that the cities exert on us.”—Journal of Roman Studies
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- PublisherJ. Paul Getty Museum
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0892368721
- ISBN 13 9780892368723
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
- EditorCoates Victoria C. Gardner, Seydl Jon L.
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Condition: Gut. VII; 296 Seiten; Illustrationen; 28 cm; fadengeh., goldgepr. Orig.-Leinenband mit farb. illustr. OUmschlag. Gutes Exemplar; Umschlag leicht berieben. - Englisch. - Beginning in 1709, when their antiquities were first recovered, Pompeii and Herculaneum have exercised the historical imagination of the West. This volume presents a wide range of responses to the sites, tracing how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations what the editors call "the strata of interpretation." The thirteen essays by noted scholars 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 Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy and Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt. Through close readings of new archival and primary-source materials, Antiquity Recovered explores the complexities of "the reception of the past" and in so doing helps enhance our understanding of the extraordinary range of roles these cities have played, and continue to play, in Western culture. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Acknowledgments ----- 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 ----- HERICA 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 ----- Index Contributors. ISBN 9780892368723 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1300. Seller Inventory # 1224322
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