Victoria C. Gardener Coates and Jon L. Seydl
Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Los Angeles:
Getty Trust Publications,
2007.
304 pp.; 50 color ills.; 70 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780892368723)
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October 30, 2007
Susan Weber Soros, ed.
James “Athenian” Stuart, 1713–1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2007.
688 pp.; 500 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$110.00
(9780300117134)
Exhibition schedule: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, November 16, 2006–February 18, 2007; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, March 15–June 24, 2007
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Some of the most perplexing problems in the history of the reception and recovering of antiquity come down to timing and silence. Why, for instance, did the Parthenon not solicit more description from Vitruvius or Pausanias? Why did the temples of Magna Graecia, especially those at Paestum, attract so little attention before the 1760s? Why was it not until the nineteenth century that people could accept the idea of a painted classical temple? Why, moreover,...