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Fausto & Felice Niccolini: The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii
Valentin Kockel
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When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, they documented the buildings, frescos, statues, as well as the most ordinary everyday objects, of the city buried in just 24 hours by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius and preserved for over 1,600 years under a mantle of volcanic ash. The Niccolinis' goal was to illustrate all aspects of life in the antique city. Their publication, Le ... Read more
When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, they documented the buildings, frescos, statues, as well as the most ordinary everyday objects, of the city buried in just 24 hours by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius and preserved for over 1,600 years under a mantle of volcanic ash. The Niccolinis' goal was to illustrate all aspects of life in the antique city. Their publication, Le ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
5635g
Number of Pages
648
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836556873
SKU
V9783836556873
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Ref
99-3
About Valentin Kockel
Valentin Kockel studied classical archaeology and obtained his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on the necropolises of Pompeii. He has worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and as Professor Emeritus at Augsburg University. Kockel has headed excavations in Ostia Antica and at the Forum in Pompeii. Sebastian Sch tze was a longtime ... Read more
Reviews for Fausto & Felice Niccolini: The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii
TASCHEN resurrects [the Niccolini brothers'] achievement in this sumptuous tome.