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One
Pompeii exhibit is
currently touring the United States:
Pompeii
and the Roman Villa:
Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples
features 150
works of sculpture, painting, mosaic, and luxury arts that
were used in the lavish villas built in Pompeii and its
surrounding suburbs. The exhibit is spread among fourteen
rooms, each thematically organized. Visitors will see:
- portraits (and
possessions) of the home owners in the first three
rooms;
- statues, fountains,
sculptures, and frescoes from Pompeiian courtyards
and gardens in the next two rooms;
- the frescoed walls of
a triclinium (summer dining room) from Moregine in
the sixth room;
- sculpture, statues,
and frescoes that reflect a Greek influence on
Pompeiian homeowners and artists in the next group
of rooms;
- and, after its
rediscovery, the way Pompeii affected and inspired
painters, sculptors, jewelers and more in the last
three rooms.
- The exhibit can be
seen at:
- Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, CA
May
3, 2009–October 4, 2009
A 360-page
catalog (with 312 color and 53 b&w illustrations) is
available for $40.00 (softcover) in October 2008. Order
from LACMA.
If you
missed the other Pompeii exhibits, you will not want to
miss this one, since many of the items shown in it are on
display for the first time in the United States. If you
were able to visit one of the other Pompeii exhibits, you
will discover many more items on display. Only a few
vintage photographs of the plaster casts are included in
the exhibit.
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TEACHERS &
LIBRARIANS: For information about scheduling a
school or library visit (which includes his Pompeii
PowerPoint), contact author
James M. Deem.
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Tales from an Eruption
which included 12 plaster and resin body
casts ended its U.S. tour in Houston on June 22, 2008. It has gone back to Italy
now, and apparently some of the objects included in the
exhibit are going to be part of the National Gallery's
new exhibit on Pompeiian villas (see above).
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A Day in Pompeii which featured eight body
casts ended its U.S. tour in Charlotte, NC on
January 4, 2009. After the exhibit
closed,
it was apparently shipped back to Italy for
refurbishment before going on the road again to (among other
places) Melbourne, Australia, and Liverpool, England. The Victoria
Museum in Melbourne, Australia, will present the exhibit from June 26 to October
11, 2009.
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