Great Treasures of Pompeii & Herculaneum

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GREAT TREASURES OF
POMPEII Herculaneum
When Mt. Vesuvius erupted nineteen hundred years ago, the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were wiped out. Yet, miraculously, the ashes that rained down on these cities also preserved them like flies in amber. Today, after nineteen centuries, archaeologists continue excavating these sites, unearthing houses, paintings, statues, bric-a-brac, and jewelry that provide an incredibly clear picture of daily life in a prosperous and old Roman community.
In Pompeii and Herculaneum, the good life as the ancient Romans knew it, is recreated through meticulous photographs, superb four-color printing, and a clear, descriptive text by Professor Theodore Feder. The result is the most impressive book yet published on these archaeological treasures, which draw visitors from all over the world and which attracted vast numbers of people when a small portion were displayed in a recent exhibition in U. S. museums.
In addition to the work in this... Tovább

Fülszöveg

GREAT TREASURES OF
POMPEII Herculaneum
When Mt. Vesuvius erupted nineteen hundred years ago, the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were wiped out. Yet, miraculously, the ashes that rained down on these cities also preserved them like flies in amber. Today, after nineteen centuries, archaeologists continue excavating these sites, unearthing houses, paintings, statues, bric-a-brac, and jewelry that provide an incredibly clear picture of daily life in a prosperous and old Roman community.
In Pompeii and Herculaneum, the good life as the ancient Romans knew it, is recreated through meticulous photographs, superb four-color printing, and a clear, descriptive text by Professor Theodore Feder. The result is the most impressive book yet published on these archaeological treasures, which draw visitors from all over the world and which attracted vast numbers of people when a small portion were displayed in a recent exhibition in U. S. museums.
In addition to the work in this exhibition, this book shows many other
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objects too large or too fragile to travel.
These glorious works of art show that the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum were much like ourselves, preoccupied with families and children, animals and pets, food and drink, love and religion.
Pompeii and Herculaneum is a scholarly text that is conceived and written for the layman. Each full-page illustration faces a descriptive text, based on the most current scientific research, by Professor Feder, who has taught art history and archaeology at Columbia University and Queens College in New York.
Pompeii and Herculaneum presents an unforgettable view of two cities that, by being destroyed, achieved immortality.

THEODORE H. FEDER
Theodore H. Feder has taught Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and at Queens College in New York. He writes and lectures extensively on Renaissance and Classical art and is the author of a fundamental study of Roger van der Wey-den and the Master of Flemalle.
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