The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection

Informationen zum Autor Victoria C. Gardner Coates received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania where she has been a lecturer and visiting scholar. Kenneth Lapatin is associate curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Jon L. Seydl is the Paul J. and Edith Ingalls Vignos! Jr. Curator of European Painting and Sculpture! 1500-1800! at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Klappentext 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. This book explores Pompeii as a modern obsession! in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present. Zusammenfassung 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. This book explores Pompeii as a modern obsession! in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present.

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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. This book explores Pompeii as a modern obsession, in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present.