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Book Review
Inside Pompeii
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 528–530
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Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
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Inside Pompeii By Luigi Spina. 480 pp. incl. 448 col. ills. (London, Thames & Hudson, 2023), £100. ISBN 978–0–500–02730–1. | :
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2. Sarno baths, Regio VIII, by Luigi Spina. Photograph, 2020–23. (© Luigi Spina).
Exhibition Review
The Painters of Pompeii
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1132-1134
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Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
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The Painters of Pompeii Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna 23rd September 2022–19th March 2023 | :
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5. Scene with inebriated Hercules. Roman, 1st century AD. Painted stucco and fresco, 166 by 267 cm. (National Archaeological Museum, Naples; exh. Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna).
Western art unattributed:
4. Painter. Roman, 1st century AD. Fresco, 45 by 45 cm. (National Archaeological Museum, Naples; exh. Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna).
Article
Avatars of Antiquity II: Drapery as metaphor
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1056-1071
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Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
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1. Drapery study for the high priest in the Trial and martyrdom of St Stephen, by Edward Poynter. 1872. Black chalk on buff paper, 41 by 27.5 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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10. Draped female torso, from the Acropolis, Xanthos. 470–460 BC. Marble, height 123.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
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11. Rebecca at the well, by Nicolas Poussin. 1648. Oil on canvas, 118 by 199 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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12. Detail from Paul preaching at Athens, by Raphael. c.1516. Body colour on paper mounted on canvas, whole canvas 320 by 390 cm. (Royal Collection, on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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13. Drapery study for the high priest in the Trial and martyrdom of St Stephen, by Edward Poynter. 1872. Black chalk on buff paper, 27.6 by 27.1 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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14. Drapery study for the kneeling handmaiden in Semiramis founding Babylon, by Edgar Degas. 1860–62. Graphite with lead-white body colour and blue wash on paper, 24.4 by 31.1 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
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15. Cymon and Iphigenia by Frederic Leighton. c.1884. Oil on canvas, 162.6 by 327.7 cm. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).
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16. Drapery study by Leonardo. c.1475–82. Brown-grey wash and lead white on linen prepared with a pale grey ground, 220 by 139 cm. (Cabinet des Dessins, Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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17. Detail of Virgin and Child, by Masaccio. 1426. Egg tempera on wood, whole panel 134.8 by 73.5 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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18. The penitence of Mary Magdalene, by Charles Le Brun. 1655. Oil on canvas, 252 by 171 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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19. Heliodorus driven from the Temple, by Eugène Delacroix. 1855–61. Mural, 751 by 485 cm. (Chapelle des Anges, Saint-Sulpice, Paris)
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2. Detail of an Antique mural painting of a dancer, by Filippo Morghen after Camillo Paderni. Engraving, 38 by 48 cm. (page). (From Le pitture antiche d’Ercolano e contorni, I, Naples 1757).
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20. Ariadne on Naxos, by G.F. Watts. 1867–75. Oil on canvas, 75 by 94 cm. (Guildhall Museum, London).
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21. Divine figures from the east pediment of the Parthenon, Athens, believed to represent Venus reclining on the lap of her mother, Dione, by Phidias or associate. 438–432 BC. Marble, length 233 cm. (British Museum, London).
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22. Captive Andromache, by Frederic Leighton. c.1888. Oil on canvas, 195.6 by 406.4 cm. (City Art Gallery, Manchester).
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23. Detail of the figure of Amor in the chimneypiece made for the residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt II on Fifth Avenue at 57th Street, Manhattan, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. c.1881–83. Limestone, height of chimneypiece 468.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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24. Dido receiving Aeneas and Cupid disguised as Ascanius, by Francesco Solimena. 1710. Oil on canvas, 207.2 by 310.2 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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3. One of the ‘attitudes’ of Lady Hamilton, by Tommaso Piroli after Friedrich Rehberg. Engraving, 26.9 by 20.8 cm. (From F. Rehberg: Drawings Faithfully Copied from Nature at Naples, n.p. 1794, fig.7).
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4. Veiled and masked dancer. Alexandria(?), c.100 BC. Bronze, height 20.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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5. Detail of Two dancers, after Antonio Canova. 1799. Tempera on paper. (Casa Canova, Possagno).
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6. Hebe, by Antonio Canova. 1816–17. Marble with gilt metal, height 158 cm. (Pinacoteca Civica, Forlì).
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7. Veiled woman (Allegory of Purity), by Antonio Corradini. 1717–25. Carrara marble. (Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca Rezzonico, Venice).
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8. Hebe, by Bertel Thorvaldsen. 1819–23. Marble, height 152.2 cm. (Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen).
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9. Kore, from the Temple of Hera, Samos. 570–60 BC. Marble, height 192 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Pompeii and Herculaneum. London
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 427-428
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Squire, Michael (Squire, Michael)
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78. Garden fresco from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii VI.17.42. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; exh. British Museum, London)
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79. Food mould in the form of a hare, found in the Bakery of Donatus, Pompeii VII.12.1. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; exh. British Museum, London)
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80. Plaster casts of two adults and two children killed in the Vesuvian eruption of 79 AD, from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii VI.17.42. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; exh. British Museum, London)
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81. Carbonised wooden stool with wooden inlaid seat, from the House of Two Atria, Herculaneum VI.28-29. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; exh. British Museum, London)
Publication Received
The Lost World of Pompeii
11/2012 | 1316 | 154
Pages: 804
Publication Received
The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting
08/2010 | 1289 | 152
Pages: 557
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Hartnell, Jack (Hartnell, Jack)
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The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting | author: Pappalardo, Umberto
Book Review
Antiquity Recovered. The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum
11/2008 | 1268 | 150
Pages: 769
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Scott, I. J. (Scott, I. J. )
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Antiquity Recovered. The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum | editor: Coates, Victoria C. Gardner , editor: Seydl, Jon L.
Book Review
Pompeii Awakened
11/2008 | 1268 | 150
Pages: 769
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Scott, I. J. (Scott, I. J. )
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Pompeii Awakened | author: Harris, Judith
Publication Received
A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae
08/2000 | 1169 | 142
Pages: 513
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Bellingham, David (Bellingham, David)
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A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae | author: Richardson, L.
Publication Received
Rediscovering Antiquity. Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae
12/1996 | 1125 | 138
Pages: 835
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Salmon, Frank (Salmon, Frank)
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Rediscovering Antiquity. Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae | author: Parslow, Christopher Charles
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