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The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750 contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts. Before they were published or exhibited, the sculptures were restored so as to appear whole: it is thus that they helped to shape early modern tastes in classical sculpture. Scholars have sought to assign names to the individual busts and statues and to discover a unified, planned sculptural program for the decoration of the Villa dei Papiri. Here, however, more objective questions are asked: Are the bronzes uniform enough in production technique and alloy or marble source to justify the notion of a single sculptural program? Did the owner of the Villa purchase the statues from one or from several sources?

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Book category Books in English The arts Art forms Non-graphic art forms

• Full title: Villa del Papiri at Herculaneum - Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection
• Author: Carol C. Mattusch, Henry Lie
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 390
• EAN: 9780892367221
• ID: 04756266
• Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
• Weight: 2692 g
• Dimensions: 239 × 315 × 44 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. March 2006

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