{"product_id":"9783754400197","title":"Fausto \u0026 Felice Niccolini : Houses and Monuments of Pompeii. 45th Ed.","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 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 selected 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55734011199864,"sku":"9783754400197","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9783754400197.jpg?v=1794328950","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9783754400197","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}