A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae

by L. Richardson Jr.

Book Overview

A herculean effort to identify the hands of individual wall painters who worked in Pompeii and the surrounding area.

How did figure painting fit into the economic and artistic life of Pompeii? Did the best painters work in conjunction with one another? Did they paint only the important pictures in the best rooms and, if so, who painted the rest? Were the best houses the showplaces for these painters' work? If not, what was the function...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801862353
• ISBN13: 9780801862359
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"