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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 79.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 56.
Corporate Author: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.) (Issuing body)
Other Authors: Mattusch, Carol C. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Washington : National Gallery of Art, [2013]
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 79.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 56.
Subjects:
Campania (Italy) > Antiquities, Roman > Congresses.
Naples, Bay of (Italy) > Civilization > Congresses.
Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century > Congresses.
Europe > Intellectual life > 19th century > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:281 pages : some color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Format: Book
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.