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the contents of this book highlight three thousand years of the iconography of death and resurrection

The provocative discussion reveals how each of these exceptional paintings

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Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary: History and Heritage Rucsha Related Getty Conservation Institute projects:Sarah Court and Leslie Rainer This volume vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and uniquely preserved for nearly two thousand years. Initial chapters offer an engaging historical overview of the town during antiquity, including the riveting story of its rediscovery in the eighteenth century, excavation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and broad cultural