Ever since they were first discovered and explored in 1709, the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum have excited the historical imagination of the West. "Antiquity Recovered" presents thirteen diverse essays that trace how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations. The essays range in subject from a reassessment of the contents of the library at Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri, to the symbolic appearance of the ancient world in such classic films as Roberto Rossellini's "Voyage in Italy" and Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt".
- ISBN10 0892368721
- ISBN13 9780892368723
- Publish Date 18 June 2007
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Getty Trust Publications
- Imprint J. Paul Getty Museum
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English