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Images of the Doomed City: The Last Days of Pompeii in the Visual Imagination
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
September 20, 2012
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Adrian Stähli, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
The destruction of Pompeii—buried under the ashes of erupting Mount Vesuvius—was one of the most widespread and visually powerful motifs of 19th-century historical painting. Although many, if not most, of these paintings are now forgotten and are only rarely on display in museums, they had a long-lasting...
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