A
secret exhibit of plaster
casts in Region I is found down a street that is rarely open to
the public. If the barrier is closed, do not go beyond it...but
on occasion you may find it open on the Via della Palestra (just
past the turn off for the Garden of
the Fugitiveson the Via della Nave Europa).
If you aren't in
luck, here's what you would have seen:
A glass-roofed
exhibit:
And beneath the
roof, a small display of what appears to be two plaster casts
(and some plaster tree castings). Rick Bauer, my Naples
correspondent (who has very graciously provided the Pompeii
photographs on this page and others on this website) says that
the display definitely includes "one cast, with the foot
extending towards the camera point. The body was lying along
side what appears to be a cast of a tree trunk.... It was
hard to tell if any of the other shapes were also body casts. I
think there is a second one...in the center of the image, but
it was not a very good cast.... Most of the other casts appeared
to be of tree branches and housing timbers."
(Thank you, Rick Bauer,
for
the photos and information about this display.)
