Sir Edward G. D. Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii and the Visual Arts

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Book Illustration

• Samuel Palmer

Photographs

• Panorama of Pompeii
• House of the Tragic Poets
• Temple of Isis
• Interior of the Baths
• School of the Gladiators
• The House of Diomed
• Ampitheater
• House of Pansa

Related Nineteenth-Century Paintings

• James Hamilton's The Last Days of Pompeii (1864, Brooklyn Museum).
• John Martin, The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
• Jacob More, Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii (1780, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; no image)
• Edward Poynter, Faithful unto Death
• Louis-Hector Leroux, Herculaneum, 23 August AD 79

Roman Murals from Pompeii

• We Didn't Start the Fire: The impact on Victorian Culture of the Discovery of Pompeii's Erotic Art

Some Recent Books and Articles

Antiquity Rediscovered: The Lagacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Eds. Victoria C. Gardener Coates and John L. Seydl. San Marino [?]: Getty Publications, 2007.

Beard, Mary. Pompeii Awakened: A Stry of Rediscovery. London [?]: Tauris, 2007.

Harris, Judith. "House of the What?" Times Literary Supplement. (7 September 2007): 8-9..

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Last modified 17 October 2007