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Book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile  fait en MDCCCI et MDCCCII

Download or read book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile fait en MDCCCI et MDCCCII written by Auguste Creuzé de Lesser and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile  fait en MDCCCI et MDCCCII

Download or read book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile fait en MDCCCI et MDCCCII written by Auguste Creuzé DeLesser and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile  faite en MDCCCI et MDCCCII

Download or read book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile faite en MDCCCI et MDCCCII written by M. Creuzé De Lesser and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile  fait en MDCCI et MDCCCII

Download or read book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile fait en MDCCI et MDCCCII written by Auguste François Baron CREUZÉ DE LESSER and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Volcanic

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  • Author : John Brewer
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2023-10-03
  • ISBN : 0300272669
  • Pages : 561 pages

Download or read book Volcanic written by John Brewer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature. John Brewer charts the changing seismic and social dynamics of the mountain, and the meanings attached by travellers to their sublime confrontation with nature. The pyrotechnics of revolution and global warfare made volcanic activity the perfect political metaphor, fuelling revolutionary enthusiasm and conservative trepidation. From Swiss mercenaries to English entrepreneurs, French geologists to local Neapolitan guides, German painters to Scottish doctors, Vesuvius bubbled and seethed not just with lava, but with people whose passions, interests, and aims were as disparate as their origins.

Book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile

Download or read book Voyage en Italie et en Sicile written by Augustin François Creuzé de Lesser and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture

Download or read book Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the place of antiquity in Enlightenment Europe. It considers the contexts, questions, and agendas that shaped eighteenth-century engagements with the ancient world, shedding new light on familiar figures and recovering forgotten chapters in this European story.

Book Pompeii s Ashes

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  • Author : Eric Moormann
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2015-03-10
  • ISBN : 1614519188
  • Pages : 485 pages

Download or read book Pompeii s Ashes written by Eric Moormann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination. Pompeii’s Ashes surveys a broad variety of such works, ranging from travelogues between ca. 1740 and 2010 to 250 years of fiction, including stage works, music, and films. The first two chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the excavation history and an overview of the reflections of travelers. The six remaining chapters discuss several clearly-defined genres: historical novels with pagan tendencies, and those with Christians and Jews as protagonists, contemporary adventures, time traveling, mock manuscripts, and works dedicated to Vesuvius. “Pompeii’s Ashes” demonstrates how the eternal fascination with the oldest still-running archaeological projects in the world began, developed, and continue until now.

Book Pompeii Awakened

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  • Author : Judith Harris
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-10-28
  • ISBN : 0857715801
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Pompeii Awakened written by Judith Harris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rediscovery of the Roman cities overwhelmed by the rage of Vesuvius is one of history's most extraordinary adventure stories. Pompeii Awakened revels in that adventure, and tells of the re-emergence of a long-vanished cosmopolis which profoundly inspired a later age - from its arts and architecture to its science, sex and religion. When Herculaneum, Pompeii' s sister in disaster, was located in 1709, that first discovery launched a frenzied scramble for buried treasure. Then in 1755 Pompeii too rose from its crust of volcanic rock, and the science of archaeology was born. Whereas Herculaneum had artistic, political and philosophical impact, the later discoveries at Pompeii spoke rather of domesticity - of cuisine and household architecture, tools, gardens and religion. To this day it is the only site to show what daily life was like in antiquity. However, the full story of Pompeii consists not just in its uniquely preserved classical villas and votives, but in the powerful response it evoked in the European cultural imagination. Here are the English, whose wealth, wet weather and classical education fostered a passion for Naples and its rediscovered cities. We read of Sir William Hamilton discussing priapic cults with his near neighbour, the dilettante Richard Payne Knight, and of how the famous love affair of Emma Hamilton and Admiral Nelson saved the Heculaneum papyri from the French. Here too are the hosts who arrived from across Europe, and then from America - engineers and artists, dreamers and poets, photographers and cinematographers, whose reconstructions and remembrances of Pompeii have never ceased to resonate. Judith Harris brings the doomed city vibrantly to life. Pompeii breathes again through her account of the diverse people who sifted through its remains to catch a glimpse of themselves in the past. From the poetic souls who found a majestic melancholy in Pompeii's shatttered walls , to the tub-thumping Victorian preachers who denounced the city as akin to Sodom and Gomorrah, Pompeii Awakened uncovers many fascinating stories - of sex, science, love and death. The author has spoken to experts on three continents, flown over Pompeii in a hot-air balloon, delved into ancient diaries and descended deep underground to assess the latest discoveries of a lost world . As the sleeping city re-awakens in her hands, Pompeii casts its spell once more, bewitching those who seek to unearth its buried secrets.

Book Representational Tactics in Travel Writing and Translation

Download or read book Representational Tactics in Travel Writing and Translation written by Paola Daniela Smecca and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le Bernin et l Europe

Download or read book Le Bernin et l Europe written by Chantal Grell and published by Presses Paris Sorbonne. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les contributions, issues d'un colloque international tenu à l'Institut italien de culture à Paris en novembre 1998, mettent l'accent sur la réception et l'influence de l'oeuvre du Bernin en Europe du XVIIe au XIXe siècle. Ses peintures, ses sculptures, son architecture et son urbanisme symbolisent le catholicisme romain et la suprématie pontificale.

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sculptural Imagination

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  • Author : Alex Potts
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300088014
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book The Sculptural Imagination written by Alex Potts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potts also offers a detailed view of selected iconic works by sculptors ranging from Antonio Canova and Auguste Rodin to Constantin Brancusi, David Smith, Carl Andre, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois - key players in modern thinking about the sculptural. The impact of minimalism features prominently in this discussion, for it disrupted accepted understanding of how a viewer interacts with a work of art, thereby placing the phenomenology of viewing three-dimensional objects for the first time at the center of debate about modern visual art."--Jacket.

Book A Classical Tour Through Italy and Sicily

Download or read book A Classical Tour Through Italy and Sicily written by Sir Richard Colt Hoare and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: