The Villa del Papiri at Herculaneum – Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection (Getty Publications – (Yale)) - Tapa dura

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 309 pages; Physical description; xxiv, 390p ; 31 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Accompanied by folded plan in back pocket.Contents; Roman villas -- The rediscovery of antiquity -- Technical examinations -- Marble sculptures -- Bronze statuary -- Afterlives. Summary; The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750 contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts. Before they were published or exhibited, the sculptures were restored so as to appear whole: it is thus that they helped to shape early modern tastes in classical sculpture. Scholars have sought to assign names to the individual busts and statues and to discover a unified, planned sculptural program for the decoration of the Villa dei Papiri. Here, however, more objective questions are asked: Are the bronzes uniform enough in production technique and alloy or marble source to justify the notion of a single sculptural program? Did the owner of the Villa purchase the statues from one or from several sources? Subjects; Villa of the Papyri (Herculaneum) - Studies. Sculpture, Greco-Roman - Italy - Herculaneum (Extinct city). Sculpture - Copying. Sculpture, Greco-Roman - Italy. SCULPTURE, GREEK & ROMAN - Collections. Herculaneum (Extinct city) - Antiquities. Sculpture ; History of art: BCE to c 500 CE, ancient & classical world. Ancient Rome ; BCE to c 500 CE.