The Villa del Papiri at Herculaneum - Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection(English, Hardcover, Mattusch .)

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The Villa del Papiri at Herculaneum - Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection(English, Hardcover, Mattusch .) is written by Mattusch . and published by Getty Trust Publications. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0892367229 (ISBN 10) and 9780892367221 (ISBN 13).

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?