Fausto & Felice Niccolini: The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii
The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii
$301.95
- Hardcover
648 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2016
Summary
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.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783836556873 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3836556871 |
| Author: | Valentin Kockel, Sebastian Schutze |
| Publisher: | Taschen |
| Imprint: | Taschen GmbH |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 648 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 4.50kg |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 150mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“TASCHEN resurrects [the Niccolini brothers’] achievement in this sumptuous tome.”
“TASCHEN resurrects [the Niccolini brothers’] achievement in this sumptuous tome.”
Valentin Kockel
Valentin Kockel studied classical archaeology and obtained his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on the necropolises of Pompeii. He has worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and until 2014 he was Professor at Augsburg University. Kockel has headed excavations in Ostia Antica and at the Forum in Pompeii.
Sebastian Schutze was a longtime research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. He is a member of the academic board of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, and a member of the OEsterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. From 2003 to 2009 he held the Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen’s University in Kingston. In 2009 he was appointed professor of early modern art history at Vienna University.
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