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Le Pitture Antiche D'Ercolano e Contorni Incise con Qualche Spiegazione Tomo Primo.

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Le Pitture Antiche D'Ercolano e Contorni Incise con Qualche Spiegazione Tomo Primo.

By Ottavio Antonio Bayardi


The excavations at Heculaneum began in 1711, when a well was being dug for the new country house of Emmanuel Maurice, Duke of Elbeuf at Portici. The well turned out to have been sunk into the buried and richly ornamented proscenium of the theater of Herculaneum, and yielded several valuable marble…

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Early Modern18th centuryArchaeologyRoman HistoryAncient RomeRoman EmpireVolcanologyArtArt HistoryFrescoesPompeiiHerculaneumNaplesThe Kingdom of the Two SiciliesClassicismNeoclassical ArtMapsPaintingsFirst EditionsThe Free Library of PhiladelphiaTomasso Piroli


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