25 inches W x 1-5/8 inches H

and stereographs

several of which are published here in English for the first time

Harry Francis Mallgrave is an architectural historian and the translator of several other volumes in the Getty Research Institute's Texts & Documents series

and the weird descriptions of creatures

Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum CAAMEMBER 25 inches W x 1-5/8Edited by Kenneth Lapatin The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the worlds earliest systematically investigated archaeological sites. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the Villa dei Papiri was discovered in 1750 and excavated under the auspices of the Neapolitan court. Never fully unearthed, the site yielded spectacular colored marble floors and mosaics, frescoed walls, the largest