Roman Copies, Collecting, and Culture in the Bay of Naples and Beyond

Contents

Preface

Abstracts

Author Biographies

Bibliography of Works by Eugene J. Dwyer

Tabula Gratulatoria

Eugene J. Dwyer: Archaeologist of the Archives – Sinclair W. Bell

Triumph over Death: Italic Funerary Furniture in the Getty Museum – Claire Lyons and Jessica Arista

‘Fitter for the Wash-Tub’: The Old Fisherman/Seneca in the Louvre – A.A. Donohue

The Archaistic Athenas in Naples and Athens: Some Second Thoughts – Mark D. Fullerton

Wearing Antiquity: The Use of Sealing Stones on Finger Rings in Byzantium – Brad Hostetler

The First Bourbon Publication of the Finds from Herculaneum and the Biography of a Long-lost Marble Satyr – Carol C. Mattusch

English Country House Collections of Classical Sculpture and Roman Collecting Habits: A Methodological Comparison – Jane Fejfer

From Kitsch to the Sublime: The Many Lives of Mt. Vesuvius – Nancy H. Ramage

Death and Resurrection in Pompeii. Gypsum Casts from Pompeii Eternized in Poetry from Campbell to Komunyakaa – Eric M. Moormann

Giacomo Boni e il mausoleo da Tor di Quinto a Villa Blanc: Questioni di metodo – Pier Giovanni Guzzo

About the Author

Sinclair W. Bell is a Professor of Art History and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at Northern Illinois University. His research focuses on the art and archaeology of the Etruscans; sport and spectacle in the Roman imperial period; and slavery and freedom in the Roman world, especially the archaeological traces and visual culture of slaves, freed persons, and ethnic foreigners.

Brad Hostetler is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Kenyon College. He specializes in the art and material culture of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, with a particular emphasis on portable luxury objects from the ninth through the twelfth centuries. His research focuses on the relationships between texts and images, including ekphraseis about, and words inscribed on, works of art. He has held fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.