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The subject is the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 that enveloped the city of Pompeii in volcanic ash, killing most of its inhabitants. As a scene from the ancient world it was an appropriate subject for a history painting, then regarded as the highest genre of painting, and the magnitude of the event also made it suitable for a large canvas that would allow Bryullov to showcase all his ...
Letícia Parente (1930–1991), video artist; Regina Parra (born 1981), contemporary artist; Rosana Paulino (born 1967), visual artist, educator and curator; Marianne Peretti (born 1927), French-Brazilian sculptor, muralist and stained glass artist; Wanda Pimentel (1943–2019), painter; Luiza Prado (born 1988), multidisciplinary artist
Fascinating artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city doomed and buried by Mount Vesuvius’s deadly eruption in AD79.. The most impressive discovery is ...
Martin was (unusually) commissioned to paint the subject by Richard Greville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, who paid 800 guineas.The painting is a monumental canvas 5 feet 3 inches (1.6 m) by 8 feet 2 inches (2.5 m) which depicts a view from Stabiae across the Bay of Naples towards the doomed cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.
Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii.
An archaeologist works on the recently discovered remains of a victim in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in ...
R. Etienne, Pompeii. The Day a City Died (London 1986; 3rd ed. 1994) R. Laurence, Roman Pompeii: Space and Society (London, 1994) A. Wallace-Hadrill, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (Princeton, 1994) Beth Severy-Hoven, 'Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii', Gender and History 2012, vol. 24 ...