Marcel Brion
Pompeii and Herculanum
The Glory and the Grief
London 1976
Stron 240, format: 20x27 cm
82 czarno-białych i 50 kolorowych ilustracji
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POMPEII & HERCULANEUM
The Glory and the Grief
text by Marcel Brian photographs by Edwin Smith
To most people, the word 'Pompeii' represents a city dramatically obliterated by lava almost two thousand years ago, and now rediscovered but in ruins. This major book by Marcel Brion and Edwin Smith will now come as a revelation. A brilliant text and superb photographs combine to produce an impression, startlingly vivid yet complete and accurate, of this Graeco-Roman city which created and supported a civilization of its own under the protection of Rome. Marcel Brion, as historian, novelist and art critic, brings to colourful life the bustling first-century metropolis, all the tremendous drama of the earthquake in 62 A.D., the final tragedy of the eruption in 79 A.D., and the history of the work of excavation, now in progress for over two hundred years and still far from complete.
The book, however, does more than this. Advanced techniques of colour printing have made it possible to show Pompeian masterpieces of painting, mosaic, sculpture, architecture, jewellery, glassware and metal-work, in their full beauty for the first time. Many of the objects shown come from remote rooms of the Naples Archaeological Museum and are not usually seen by visitors. All were photographed especially for this book by Edwin Smith, world-famous for his work in the British Museum.
No one could fail to be moved by the story of the horror which befell Pompeii and Herculaneum—and no one, reading this book, can fail to marvel at the magnificence they left behind.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations . . . Page 7
Introduction . . . , .11
I History of Pompeii . . . . 13
II The Volcano Roused . . . . 19
III The Dead Cities Revived ... 38
IV Pompeii Formerly and Today ... 68 V Business, Work and Recreation ... 98
VI The Life of the People . . . . 121
VII The Pompeiians at Home . . . .136
VIII The Nécropoles . . . . .160
IX Herculaneum . . . . .174
X Art at Pompeii and Herculaneum . . 197
XI Conclusion ..... 225
Notes . . . . . • 227
Bibliography . . . . .231
Glossary ...... 232
Index ...... 238
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