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Mar 23, - Death did not come quickly for everyone living in the shadow of Vesuvius on 24 August AD The busy city of Pompeii and upmarket resort of Herculaneum were smothered into immortality by a three-metre blanket of volcanic ash and pumice from the eruption. The British Museum's new.
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Later, he was overseer of the banks of the Tiber and the sewers of the city. Later, he was at great pains to stress his closeness to those struck down, even claiming that, had Domitian not been assassinated, he himself was set to join the ranks of the martyrs. This interpretation has not won universal credence. An example of his own moral courage, of which Pliny boasted, was refusing to take a bath when ill against the advice of his doctor.
As a writer, Pliny was a minor talent, and the majority of his friends were of similar capacity. Yet he claimed to have lived at a time when the liberal arts flourished in Rome as never before, complacently referring to himself and his circle. F rom this recalcitrant material, Daisy Dunn has written an enthralling and ambitious book.
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Avoiding a plodding chronological approach, the book is structured by the seasons of the year. One chapter ranges from Pliny the Younger appearing in court to scenes of poison and suicide, via perfume, imperialism, Stoic philosophy and immortality. Dunn has a great eye for a story, and writes wonderfully. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Visit our adblocking instructions page. A car is invaluable - and, alas, vulnerable to theft.
But the best discoveries must be made on foot; and nothing - except the wayside refreshment - is entirely simple. Yet the journey to the Vesuvian villas is an experience of beauty like a dream: almost illusory, noble, sweet and touched with tragedy. Auden, once himself a dweller on these shores. Those who explore Vesuvius should come prepared by reading and reflection, and with a liberal allowance of days. They should also, for safety, carry nothing snatchable. The circuit of the mountain by its main road, the old Via Nazionale, passes through a confusion of millennia, where, among castles and ancient churches, modern ''housing'' for the moment has the upper hand.
Past centuries still make strong signals: a sheep is tethered outside a laundromat; a donkey or tiny pony draws its cart among the cars. And many a time one sees a man between the shafts, bowed with heat and exertion. To the sanctuary of the Madonna dell'Arco, near Sant'Anastasia, thousands of votaries still make, as in past centuries, their long pilgrimage on foot from Naples each Easter Monday, with altars and banners carried aloft. Everywhere in these contiguous towns the stalls of Vesuvian fruit and vegetables are conflagrations of color; for countryside is never distant, and any upward detour will bring you to great stands of umbrella pines and woods of ilex and chestnut.
Above, always, is the long rise to the crater or to the older Vesuvian peak called Monte Somma; and underfoot, undoubtedly, the ancient villas lie concealed -suggested, as at Ottaviano, in the royal names of towns. On the slopes above Torre del Greco, on an outcropping of prehistoric lava, a shaded country road leads to the convent of the Camaldoli della Torre, with a view over all the bay. On this same sweep of the volcano, among apricot orchards, a shuttered house decays like many of the rest: not large or beautiful, without avenue or garden; distinguished by the fact that here, in the 's, a great poet in the last months of his short life contemplated Vesuvius and its ancient towns, and the yellow broom that flowers over the mountain in early summer; and wrote immortally of earth's indifference to our human presence.
No one who reads Leopardi's ''La Ginestra,'' from which this house now takes its name, will see Vesuvius without some thought of that great work, or visit this neglected place unmoved. American painters continue to feel the influence of Vesuvius - de Kooning and Warhol among them, and the modern master of Neapolitan light, Randall Morgan.
But many New Yorkers - and many other Americans - first glimpsed the Vesuvian drama at the Metropolitan Museum, in the reds, blues and ochers of the Roman room from Boscoreale: an arrangement of one of the finest groups of Vesuvian wall paintings to survive the Great Eruption.
These panels in the Second Style - in an architectural perspective recalling the stage settings from which such house decoration derived - were part of a vast treasure excavated in the 's near Pompeii, in a district anciently famed for beauty and amenity - the site, once, of a sacred forest and, subsequently, as its modern name indicates, a hunting preserve for kings of Naples. Of the first hoard unearthed there, much was spirited out of Italy and into France in a bizarre transaction involving French politicians and bankers, and the authorities of the Louvre.
The Metropolitan's room was acquired at auction in Paris in Late in , the Metropolitan Museum will show another set of wall paintings - these discovered at Boscotrecase, adjoining Boscoreale, at the turn of this century, acquired from the Neapolitan authorities in , and stored since then - apart from one obscure and incomplete appearance -in the Metropolitan's reserve.
In the Third Style - of monochrome background with small but predominant painted motifs - these panels carry, on black, red or white, fine decorations of great interest, including two portraits conjectured by Maxwell L. Anderson, the Metropolitan's assistant curator of Greek and Roman art, to be of Livia and Julia, respectively the wife and daughter of the Emperor Augustus and, consequently, mother and wife of Tiberius: an imperial connection familiar to the houses of Vesuvius.
In the 's, in one of the strangest episodes in all the history of Vesuvian housing, J. Paul Getty erected, at Malibu, his representation of a celebrated villa from Vesuvius - a Roman villa, never excavated, from which, through tunnels, classical sculptures were extracted in the 18th century, along with hundreds of papyri - the scrolled books of an important library.
The tunnels were closed in due to leakage of volcanic gas. Now, more than two centuries later, the Villa dei Papiri, with the rest of its ancient library, remains incomprehensibly interred at Herculaneum; while, by the far Pacific, the Getty Museum flourishes in its name. In the 's we build our own volcanoes; and a field of refineries and gas tanks are explosively grouped at the foot of Vesuvius.
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The great monuments decay, or lie with all their knowledge in the earth. Delinquency, official and otherwise, threatens Pompeii itself with a second obliteration. And new apartment blocks rise, in thousands, ever higher on the cone, erected by developers who feel little need of appeasing San Gennaro. For the view from these slopes is unsurpassed, and our world is disinclined to draw hard lessons.
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It is always advisable to confirm in advance. One of the world's greatest collections of antiquities from Greco-Roman civilization, this museum in central Naples houses many of the most celebrated frescoes, mosaics, bronzes and works of sculpture from the ancient cities of Vesuvius and other sites in southern Italy.
The museum also contains important collections of Etruscan, Egyptian and prehistoric objects.
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Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte. The Museum of Capodimonte, in a former Bourbon palace on the outskirts of Naples, houses one of the most important collections of paintings in Europe. Separate galleries of porcelain and majolica include the room executed in porcelain for the Bourbon palace at Portici, and many works of Capodimonte ware inspired by the 18th-century Vesuvian excavations. Visitors arriving at Capodimonte by bus or taxi should give thought beforehand to arrangements for their return to central Naples.
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