Returns to Pompeii
Subtitle: interior space and decoration documented and revived, 18th-20th century
By: edited by Shelley Hales & Anne-Marie Leander Touati
Series: Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom, 4° -- 62; Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom -- 62.
Publisher: Svenska Institutet
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9789170421839
Subjects: Interior decoration; Roman influences; In art
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Shelley Hales and Anne-Marie Leander Touati; title: Discovery and reception the influence of Pompeian wall painting in 18th- and 19th-century Naples / Margot Hleunig Heilmann; title: Pompeii in Spanish interior decoration / Mirella Romero Recio; title: The absence of Pompeian models in "Pompeian style" interiors in 18th-century Swedish interior decoration; title: Recollections of a better place the transformation of Pompeian ideals in Danish interior decoration, 1790-1860 / Ulla Houkjær; title: Pompeii in Stockholm : a focus on content / Anne-Marie Leander Touati; title: Observations on the museums in Portici and the Vesuvian sites made by two Swedish professionals in 1756 and 1768, respectively / Anne-Marie Leander Touati and Ulf Cederlöf; title: Reconstructing a museum interior : the Palazoo Reale in Portici / Irene Bragantini and Renata Cantilena; title: A tale of two sites : Ludwig I's Pompejanum and the House of the Dioscuri in Pompeii / Bettina Bergmann; title: Living with Arria Marcella: novel interiors in the Maison Pompéienne / Shelley Hayes; title: Reconstructing the House of Marcus Lucretius in Helsinki / Antero Tammisto and Helena Wassholm; title: Appendix : Pompeian revival in the decorative arts Arabesque, grotesque, Herculanean, Pompeian or neo-Pompeian? / Margot Hleunig Heilmann.