Lecture 19

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Classics 456 Dr. Soren

Greek and Roman Mosaics and Painting

 

Lecture 19: The Discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum

 

  1. The Destruction of Pompeii 8-24-79
    1. 20,000 residents, Pliny the Elder in charge
    2. The fleet at Misenum
    3. Preceded by the quake of A.D. 62
    4. In the reign of Titus – Senate commission

       decides on rebuilding

  1. The course of the eruption – 18 hours,     

        pyroclastic flows

 

  1. Herculaneum
    1. City of 5000 near Pompeii but on slopes of Vesuvius
    2. Volcanic mud 70 feet deep
    3. Many victims trapped along shoreline
    4. Houses of great interest
      1. Tabernae
      2. Fauces
      3. Atrium
      4. Compluvium
      5. Impluvium
      6. Cubiculum
      7. Triclinium
      8. Tablinum
      9.       Hortus
      10.       Peristylum

 

  1. Rediscovery of the Ancient Cities
    1. Dominico Fontana 1594
    2. Maurice of Lorraine, the Austrian prince
    3. Mount Vesuvius
    4. Charles III, King of Naples, and his wife Maria Amalia of Saxony
    5. Johann Winckelmann- Sendschreiben
    6. Roche Joachim Albubierre- In charge of original excavations of Pompeii
    7. Bayardi and Martorelli and the Academy of Herculaneum 1755

 

  1. Neo-Classical Revival
    1. Johann Winckelmann
    2. Robert Adam and Osterley Park House
    3. Josiah Wedgewood and Jasper Ware
    4. Lady Hamilton and William Hamilton- Grecian Eurythmics
    5. Thomas Jefferson and Monticello in Virginia

 

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