Finding the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum [videorecording] / [lecture by] Carol Mattusch ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Mattusch, Carol C. Finding the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum [videorecording] / [lecture by] Carol Mattusch ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

Finding the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum [videorecording] / [lecture by] Carol Mattusch ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Lecture by Carol Mattusch, professor of art history at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia and author of The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: life and afterlife of a sculpture collection. Mattusch discusses the significance of the discoveries made at the Villa dei Papiri to the history of ancient art. In 1738, Charles VII, the Bourbon King of Naples and Sicily, decided to dig on his estate at Portici outside Naples. Well-diggers had always found antiquities in the region, and Charles hoped to find some for himself and for the royal collections. Over the next decade, the "excavations" through the debris of the Vesuvian eruption of 79 A.D. yielded vast numbers of sculptures and papyri from what proved to be an extraordinarily large Roman villa, now known as the Villa dei Papiri. The sculptures were pivotal for the history of ancient art, Herculaneum was added to the Grand Tour, and the Villa was eventually recreated in Malibu to house J. Paul Getty's collections.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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