Research Catalog

Title

Rediscovering the ancient world on the Bay of Naples, 1710-1890 / edited by Carol C. Mattusch.

Publication

• Washington : National Gallery of Art, [2013]
• New Haven : Yale University Press.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mattusch, Carol C.
• Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.), issuing body.

Description

281 pages : some color illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Summary

The ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., drew international attention when excavations commenced in the 1730s. As a result, the nearby city of Naples became a nexus of scholarship, cultural diplomacy, and tourism. This fascinating book examines responses to the excavations by 18th- and 19th-century monarchs, statesmen, scholars, and archaeologists, as well as by artists, architects, designers, writers, and tourists. Essays by leading art historians and archaeologists chronicle the exploitation of the sites through excavation, publication, and museum display, and discuss the wider influence of the recovered objects and architectural remains on art and design in Italy, France, Germany, and Britain. Unlike other publications that focus on the archaeological artifacts and their documentation, this extensively illustrated book presents the discoveries from the standpoint of how they were understood at the time. -- Publishers website.

Series Statement

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 79. Symposium papers ; 56

Uniform Title

• Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 79.
• Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 56.

Subject

• Antike
• Rezeption
• Archäologie
• Campania (Italy) > Antiquities, Roman > Congresses
• Naples, Bay of (Italy) > Civilization > Congresses
• Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century > Congresses
• Europe > Intellectual life > 19th century > Congresses
• Herculaneum
• Neapel
• Pompeji

Note

• Proceedings of the symposium "Rediscovering the Ancient World on the Bay of Naples," organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. The symposium was held January 30-31, 2009, in Washington.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Antiquarian Culture of Eighteenth-Century Naples as a Laboratory of New Ideas / Alain Schnapp -- The Herculaneum Women in Eighteenth-Century Europe / Jens Daehner -- The Sacrarium of Isis in the Praedia of Julia Felix in Pompeii in Its Archaeological and Historical Contexts / Christopher Parslow -- Politics and Royal Patronage in the Neapolitan Regency: The Correspondence of Charles III and the Prince of San Nicandro, 1759-1767 / Carlo Knight -- "To the Catholic King" and Others: Bernardo Tanucci's Correspondence and the Herculaneum Project / John E. Moore -- German Painters in Naples and Their Contribution to the Revival of Antiquity, 1760-1799 / Steffi Roettgen -- The Ferdinand IV Donation to the First Consul and His Wife: Antiquities from the Bay of Naples at Malmaison / Sophie Descamps-Lequime -- Flying Maenads and Cupids: Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Eighteenth-Century Decorative Arts / Nancy H. Ramage -- Grecian Taste and Neapolitan Spirit: Grand Tour Portraits of the Society of Dilettanti / Bruce Redford -- Literary Evocations of Herculaneum in the Nineteenth Century / Eric M. Moormann -- Taste and the Antique: Visiting Pompeii in the Nineteenth Century / Mary Beard -- "Speaking Ruins": Piranesi and Desprez at Pompeii / John Pinto -- Pompeii versus Herculaneum / Eugene J. Dwyer.

Call Number

JFF 13-1716

ISBN

• 9780300189216 (alk. paper)
• 0300189214 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2012035750

OCLC

809250641

Title

Rediscovering the ancient world on the Bay of Naples, 1710-1890 / edited by Carol C. Mattusch.

Publisher

Washington : National Gallery of Art, [2013]

Distributor

New Haven : Yale University Press.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 79. Symposium papers ; 56

Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 79.

Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 56.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mattusch, Carol C., editor.

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.), issuing body.

Research Call Number

JFF 13-1716