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Rediscovering the ancient world on the Bay of Naples, 1710-1890
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Rediscovering the ancient world on the Bay of Naples, 1710-1890

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Proceedings of the symposium "Rediscovering the Ancient World on the Bay of Naples," organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. The symposium was held January 30-31, 2009, in Washington.

Contents

The Antiquarian Culture of Eighteenth-Century Naples as a Laboratory of New Ideas / Alain Schnapp
The Herculaneum Women in Eighteenth-Century Europe / Jens Daehner
The Sacrarium of Isis in the Praedia of Julia Felix in Pompeii in Its Archaeological and Historical Contexts / Christopher Parslow
Politics and Royal Patronage in the Neapolitan Regency: The Correspondence of Charles III and the Prince of San Nicandro, 1759-1767 / Carlo Knight
"To the Catholic King" and Others: Bernardo Tanucci's Correspondence and the Herculaneum Project / John E. Moore
German Painters in Naples and Their Contribution to the Revival of Antiquity, 1760-1799 / Steffi Roettgen
The Ferdinand IV Donation to the First Consul and His Wife: Antiquities from the Bay of Naples at Malmaison / Sophie Descamps-Lequime
Flying Maenads and Cupids: Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Eighteenth-Century Decorative Arts / Nancy H. Ramage
Grecian Taste and Neapolitan Spirit: Grand Tour Portraits of the Society of Dilettanti / Bruce Redford
Literary Evocations of Herculaneum in the Nineteenth Century / Eric M. Moormann
Taste and the Antique: Visiting Pompeii in the Nineteenth Century / Mary Beard
"Speaking Ruins": Piranesi and Desprez at Pompeii / John Pinto
Pompeii versus Herculaneum / Eugene J. Dwyer.

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