Reviews
"[This volume] explores the obsession that visual artists over the past three centuries have had with the ruined city."-- Easy Reader, This brilliantly illustrated text presents images from the modern memory of Pompeii that focus on its decadence, its unexpectedness, and the sense that maybe cosmic justice had been served."— Book News, The [book's] great strength . . . is the generous attention paid to modern art and its response to the Pompeii motif."— Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Sumptuously illustrated in combination with topical essays, this volume shows how artists and scholars responded to the town's reemergence from the dead."— Choice, "This brilliantly illustrated text presents images from the modern memory of Pompeii that focus on its decadence, its unexpectedness, and the sense that maybe cosmic justice had been served."-- Book News, "The [book's] great strength . . . is the generous attention paid to modern art and its response to the Pompeii motif."-- Bryn Mawr Classical Review, [This volume] explores the obsession that visual artists over the past three centuries have had with the ruined city."— Easy Reader, "Sumptuously illustrated in combination with topical essays, this volume shows how artists and scholars responded to the town's reemergence from the dead."-- Choice
