The discovery of and excavations at Pompeii in the second half of
the eighteenth century not only provided historians with a trove of
information about ancient Roman civilization but also fired
artists' imaginations and inaugurated the vogue for the "Pompeian
style" that so influenced the West in the nineteenth century.
This book reproduces, along with commentary, Le case i monumenti
di Pompeii (1854) of Fausto and Felice Niccolini, the first work to
present completely and systematically all the public and private
buildings so far excavated in Pompeii. It features the wondrous
watercolors the Niccolinis created to document Pompeii and is thus
a beautiful and essential tool in understanding the excavated
remains themselves and how the modern archaeologists perceived and
recorded the ancient world.
These magnificently reproduced drawings of the excavations are
accompanied by texts that explain the documents by the Niccolinis,
as well as the evolution of the Pompeian style in Europe, the
pictorial representation of Pompeii in the nineteenth century from
engravings to photographs, and the evolving styles of
archaeological documentation.
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