Fausto & Felice Niccolini. Houses and Monuments of Pompeii - Couverture rigide

Kockel, Valentin; Schtze, Sebastian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3836556871 ISBN 13 : 9783836556873

Editeur : TASCHEN, 2016

Synopsis

When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, they documented the buildings, frescos, statues, as well as the most ordinary everyday objects, of the city buried in just 24 hours by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius and preserved for over 1,600 years under a mantle of volcanic ash.

The Niccolinis’ goal was to illustrate all aspects of life in the antique city. Their publication, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei (“The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii”), which was issued in installments between 1854 and 1896 in Naples, presented over 400 color plates providing not only views, maps, and groundplans of the city and its public buildings, but also offered unprecedented access to Pompeii’s private residences. They revealed the astonishing painted wall decorations that adorned these long-buried abodes, their intricate works of art, and the practical utensils of everyday use, conjuring up a vivid picture of each house as a real domestic space. In total, the plates illustrated more than 1,000 items, each extensively specified and located for the first time, making the publication a major reference in Pompeii research. In addition, “animated” representations visualized daily life in Pompeii’s workshops, taverns, and shops, on its public squares, and in its temples, theaters, and baths.

This meticulous facsimile revives the Niccolinis’ extraordinary achievement with all color plates and two introductory essays setting the project in its contemporary context and presenting the historical protagonists of the Vesuvian excavations. In addition, we explore the remarkable influence exerted by Pompeian art—and by the haunting plaster casts made of victims of the eruption—on the visual arts. Across painting, sculpture, and interior design, we trace the Pompeii legacy in the work of Robert Adam, Anton Raphael Mengs, Angelika Kaufmann, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Pablo Picasso, and Giorgio de Chirico, right through to recent masters Duane Hanson and George Segal.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sebastian Schütze a été, pendant de nombreuses années, collaborateur scientifique à la Bibliotheca Hertziana (Institut Max-Planck de l'histoire de l'art) à Rome. Il est membre du conseil scientifique de l'Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici à Naples et membre de l'Académie autrichienne des sciences. De 2003 à 2009, il a été professeur d'histoire de l'art, occupant la Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art à la Queen's University de Kingston. Depuis 2009, il occupe la chaire d'histoire de l'art moderne à l'Université de Vienne.

Valentin Kockel a étudié l'archéologie classique et a conclu sa formation en 1978 par un doctorat, pour lequel il a rédigé une thèse sur les nécropoles de Pompéi. Il a travaillé à l'Institut archéologique allemand de Rome, puis à la faculté d'architecture de Darmstadt et, jusqu'à son départ à la retraite en 2014, il a été titulaire d'une chaire d'archéologie classique à l'Université d'Augsbourg. Kockel a dirigé des fouilles à Ostia Antica et sur le forum de Pompéi.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

El meticuloso facsímil de Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei, la extraordinaria edición de Fausto and Felice Niccolini sobre Pompeya. Con más de 400 litografías en color, la publicación de 1854 sobre la ciudad sepultada por el Vesubio constituye una obra maestra de la arqueología que no presenta sólo mapas y planos urbanos, sino también sofisticadas decoraciones interiores y objetos cotidianos que ilustran cómo era la vida cotidiana en el Imperio Romano.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: TASCHEN
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: multilingue
• ISBN 10: 3836556871
• ISBN 13: 9783836556873
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 648
• Coordonnées du fabricant: TASCHEN GmbH; contact@taschen.com; ; Hohenzollernring 53. D; K�ln; 50672; Allemagne