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100 1 _aEngelmann, Richard,
_d1844-1909
245 1 0 _aPompeii
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aFamous art cities; no. 1
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-12
508 _adeaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Pompeii" by Richard Engelmann is a travel and art-historical guidebook written in the early 20th century. It offers a clear, engaging tour of the buried Roman city, blending history, archaeology, and art to orient culturally inclined travelers to the ruins. The focus spans the city’s destruction and rediscovery, its streets and forums, temples and theatres, baths and houses, and the paintings, mosaics, and objects that illuminate daily life. The opening of this guide sets the scene with Naples and Vesuvius, recounts the A.D. 79 catastrophe via Pliny the Younger, and explains how plaster casts captured victims’ final forms. It then traces the site’s post-eruption fate and rediscovery, the evolution from treasure-hunting digs to Fiorelli’s scientific methods and in-situ preservation, and the complementary role of the Naples museum. Next comes a brisk portrait of the city’s growth and plan—Oscan and Samnite origins, walls and gates, narrow paved streets with stepping-stones and drains, public fountains, shops, painted notices, and graffiti. The narrative surveys key public spaces and buildings (Triangular Forum, Forum with the temples of Jupiter and Vespasian, Macellum, Eumachia’s hall, Basilica, Apollo, Isis, Fortune), entertainment venues (theatres, amphitheatre, gladiators’ barracks), and the Forum and Stabian baths with their rooms and heating. It introduces the Roman house (atrium, tablinum, peristyle, lararia), wall-painting styles and mosaics (notably the Alexander mosaic), notable artworks and portraits, garden fountains and bronzes, household furniture, and lighting—closing this beginning with a glimpse of luxury silver and bronzes from nearby Bosco Reale that enrich the picture of Pompeian life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: H. Grevel & Co, 1904
653 _aPompeii (Extinct city)
653 _aArt, Greco-Roman
653 _aPompeii (Extinct city) -- Guidebooks
700 1 _aEly, Talfourd,
_d1838-1923
830 0 _aFamous art cities; no. 1
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/pompeiiengelmann00engeiala
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78658
999 _c119376
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