Fausto & Felice Niccolini. Houses and Monuments of Pompeii

by Valentin Kockel and Sebastian Schütze

When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, they documented the buildings, frescos, statues, as well as the most ordinary everyday objects, of the city buried in just 24 hours by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius and preserved for over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836556871
• ISBN13: 9783836556873
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 12.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.0" x 18.0" x 12.3"