Returns to Pompeii : Interior space and decoration documented and revived 18th-20th century
Leander Touati, Anne-Marie LU and Hales, Shelley (2016) In Skrifter utgivna av de svenska institutet i Rom 4o / Acta Instituti Romani Regni Suecia in 4o 62.- Abstract
- This volume presents a series of case studies that trace the ways in which audiences across Europe have attempted to return to Pompeii by emulating its interior decorations since the city’s rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. As such, it is about both the impact of Pompeian antiquity on the present and the reception in the present of that antique past, exploring the variety of ways in which Pompeian domestic space and decoration have been revived (and for what purposes and audiences). The contributions to the volumes compare the ways in which Pompeian wall decorations were interpreted and adapted, given new context and put to serve new social and political purposes, both close to their place of discovery, in the Kingdom of Naples,... (More)
- This volume presents a series of case studies that trace the ways in which audiences across Europe have attempted to return to Pompeii by emulating its interior decorations since the city’s rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. As such, it is about both the impact of Pompeian antiquity on the present and the reception in the present of that antique past, exploring the variety of ways in which Pompeian domestic space and decoration have been revived (and for what purposes and audiences). The contributions to the volumes compare the ways in which Pompeian wall decorations were interpreted and adapted, given new context and put to serve new social and political purposes, both close to their place of discovery, in the Kingdom of Naples, and in the far-off European periphery, represented by Denmark and Sweden. The many images presented to the reader in this volume confirm colour, fantasy and playfulness, alongside an almost academic orthodoxy of structure, as trademarks of a defined neo-Pompeian style. The volume brings together scholars from different disciplines; archaeologists, art-historians, pigment technicians and decorators, all of whom have participated in this collective effort to achieve new understanding and appreciation of past and present manifestations of the Pompeian idiom. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This volume presents a series of case studies that trace the ways in which audiences across Europe have attempted to return to Pompeii by emulating its interior decorations since the city’s rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. As such, it is about both the impact of Pompeian antiquity on the present and the reception in the present of that antique past, exploring the variety of ways in which Pompeian domestic space and decoration have been revived (and for what purposes and audiences). The contributions to the volumes compare the ways in which Pompeian wall decorations were interpreted and adapted, given new context and put to serve new social and political purposes, both close to their place of discovery, in the Kingdom of Naples,... (More)
- This volume presents a series of case studies that trace the ways in which audiences across Europe have attempted to return to Pompeii by emulating its interior decorations since the city’s rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. As such, it is about both the impact of Pompeian antiquity on the present and the reception in the present of that antique past, exploring the variety of ways in which Pompeian domestic space and decoration have been revived (and for what purposes and audiences). The contributions to the volumes compare the ways in which Pompeian wall decorations were interpreted and adapted, given new context and put to serve new social and political purposes, both close to their place of discovery, in the Kingdom of Naples, and in the far-off European periphery, represented by Denmark and Sweden. The many images presented to the reader in this volume confirm colour, fantasy and playfulness, alongside an almost academic orthodoxy of structure, as trademarks of a defined neo-Pompeian style. The volume brings together scholars from different disciplines; archaeologists, art-historians, pigment technicians and decorators, all of whom have participated in this collective effort to achieve new understanding and appreciation of past and present manifestations of the Pompeian idiom. (Less)
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- editor
- Leander Touati, Anne-Marie LU and Hales, Shelley
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-12
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Pompeii, reception, interiors, design, Bavaria, Campania, Denmark, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Sweden, Helsinki, Sergel, Thorwaldsen, Reception studies, Interior decoration, experience, appropriation, revival, reconstruction
- in
- Skrifter utgivna av de svenska institutet i Rom 4o / Acta Instituti Romani Regni Suecia in 4o
- volume
- 62
- pages
- 307 pages
- publisher
- Svenska institutet i Rom
- ISSN
- 0081-993X
- ISBN
- 978-91-7042-183-9
- project
- The Swedish Pompeii Project
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Text accompanied by more than 300 images, mostly colour plates
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- caae8c9d-1cc2-489e-a31f-3d0fa0016cc9
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- 2017-07-01 09:54:35
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