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The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum) Hardcover – February 7, 2005
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The book describes the nature of the ancient sculptures and their impact on the modern public. Their chance discovery affected the interpretation of the statues-their styles and subjects-over the course of the next 250 years. The ancient sculptures were copied extensively in reproductions of various sizes and patinas. The author traces the popularity of these copies in Europe and America.
Also presented in the book is a technical study of the production techniques and materials of the sculptures, as well as of their modern restoration history. Scientific analyses and detailed photographs reveal both how the pieces were cast and pieced together in antiquity and how they were restored in the eighteenth century. Even though this collection has been known for two and a half centuries, this book covers for the first time the eclectic nature of the sculptures, their acutual condition, and their quality, pointing in some cases to mass production.
- Print length392 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherJ. Paul Getty Museum
- Publication dateFebruary 7, 2005
- Dimensions9 x 1.6 x 12 inches
- ISBN-100892367229
- ISBN-13978-0892367221
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"Mattusch has done a great service in writing this book. She has taken a look at a well-known group of sculptures and examined them with a practiced eye and with the help of a great deal of technical expertise. The result is an entirely new insight into their production and manufacture, and the correction of many earlier misapprehensions about them."—Ancient East and West
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- Publisher : J. Paul Getty Museum (February 7, 2005)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 392 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0892367229
- ISBN-13 : 978-0892367221
- Item Weight : 5.93 pounds
- Dimensions : 9 x 1.6 x 12 inches
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2012You must get this book if you plan to visit the John Paul Getty museum in Malibu. Puts the Villa in context as an actual Viila in 79ad. This museum has continued to exist despite terrible choices to purchase looted antiquities. And the return to their rightful origins. Hated at first it has grown into a beautiful museum unlike any in the world.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2013a work of deep scholarship with great pics....an amazing array of bronze sculpture from the Villa which has more areas to be excavated.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2023It was a deaccessed from a Miami library with writing in the book. I will not keep.
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Archeologist for lifeReviewed in Italy on December 10, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Fondamentale
Chi si approccia allo studio scientifico della Villa dei Papiri deve assolutamente studiarsi questo importante volume. Completo, dettagliato e corposo. Una lettura non per tutti ma fondamentale
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CiroReviewed in Italy on June 28, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo
Ottimo testo, uno dei più completi in assoluto sull'argomento, anche con approfondimenti scientifici interessantissimi