Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pompeii: The Last Day is a 2003 dramatized documentary that tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius towards the end of August 79 CE. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This eruption covered the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and pumice, killing a large number of people trapped between the volcano and the sea.
The Last Day of Pompeii is a large history painting by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833 on the subject of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It is notable for its positioning between Neoclassicism , the predominant style in Russia at the time, and Romanticism as increasingly practised in France.
The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. [1] It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Pompeii (/ p ɒ m ˈ p eɪ (i)/ ⓘ pom-PAY(-ee), Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, the city was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
The Last Days of Pompeii, a film starring Preston Foster, David Holt, and Basil Rathbone; The Last Days of Pompeii, a French-Italian film by Marcel L'Herbier and Paolo Moffa; The Last Days of Pompeii, an Italian film by Sergio Leone, credited to Mario Bonnard; The Last Days of Pompeii, a 1984 U.S. miniseries
A 37-year-old man, who has not been named, used a blunt object to make five engravings on a house in Pompeii, Italian media reported. British tourist apologizes after carving initials into an ...
The Last Days of Pompeii appeared to be a moderate box-office success upon its release in 1935, but RKO ultimately lost $237,000 after the film's first theatrical run. [2] However, the picture finally made a profit for the studio following its 1949 re-release, when it shared a double bill with the re-release of another 1935 production, Cooper ...