Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum

Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum
Author: Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606060899

This new translation brings to light the early days of scientific archaeology and the unearthing and study of Herculaneum and Pompeii as observed by the erudite and acerbic art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). His Letter, published in German in 1762, displays his extensive knowledge of geology, ancient literature, and art while offering a scathing critique of the Spanish Bourbon excavations around the Bay of Naples and of the officials involved. He further discusses these topics in his equally controversial Report of 1764. The introduction describes the context in which these texts were written, identifies various politicians, academics, and collectors, and elucidates topics of particular interest to Winckelmann, from artifacts to local customs to the contents of ancient papyri. The illustrations, particularly those from the Bourbon publication--Le Antichità di Ercolano (1757-92)--illuminate how these monuments influenced contemporary perception of the ancient world.

Naples and the Campagna Felice, a Series of Letters by L. Engelbach

Naples and the Campagna Felice, a Series of Letters by L. Engelbach
Author: Lewis Engelbach
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2019-08-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780461512496

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Pompeii's Ashes

Pompeii's Ashes
Author: Eric Moormann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1614518734

Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination. Pompeii’s Ashes surveys a broad variety of such works, ranging from travelogues between ca. 1740 and 2010 to 250 years of fiction, including stage works, music, and films. The first two chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the excavation history and an overview of the reflections of travelers. The six remaining chapters discuss several clearly-defined genres: historical novels with pagan tendencies, and those with Christians and Jews as protagonists, contemporary adventures, time traveling, mock manuscripts, and works dedicated to Vesuvius. “Pompeii’s Ashes” demonstrates how the eternal fascination with the oldest still-running archaeological projects in the world began, developed, and continue until now.

Volcanic

Volcanic
Author: John Brewer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300274432

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature. John Brewer charts the changing seismic and social dynamics of the mountain, and the meanings attached by travellers to their sublime confrontation with nature. The pyrotechnics of revolution and global warfare made volcanic activity the perfect political metaphor, fuelling revolutionary enthusiasm and conservative trepidation. From Swiss mercenaries to English entrepreneurs, French geologists to local Neapolitan guides, German painters to Scottish doctors, Vesuvius bubbled and seethed not just with lava, but with people whose passions, interests, and aims were as disparate as their origins.

Sale Catalogues

Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1056
Release: 1923
Genre:
ISBN:

Sale

Sale
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1670
Release: 1923
Genre:
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Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900

Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900
Author: Benjamin Colbert
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030361462

This book explores the boundaries of British continental travel and tourism in the nineteenth century, stretching from Norway to Bulgaria, from visitors’ albums to missionary efforts, from juvenilia to joint authorship. The essay topics invoke new aesthetics of travel as consumption, travel as satire, and of the developing culture of tourism. Chronologically arranged, the book charts the growth and permutations of this new consumerist ideology of travel driven by the desires of both men and women: the insatiable appetite for new accounts of old routes as well as appropriation of the new; interart reproductions of description and illustration; and wider cultural manifestations of tourism within popular entertainment and domestic settings. Continental tourism provides multiple perspectives with wide-ranging coverage of cultural phenomena increasingly incorporated into and affected by the nineteenth-century continental tour. The essays suggest the coextension of travel alongside experiential boundaries and reveal the emergence of a consumerist attitude toward travel that persists in the present day.