Naples And The Campagna Felice A Series Of Letters By L Engelbach
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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
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
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
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
Author | : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1056 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author | : Boston Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Boston (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
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.