LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | MAY 3, 2009-OCTOBER 4, 2009
Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
Installation Slideshow
“Pompeii and the Roman Villa is a well-considered, beautifully installed examination of elite Roman taste roughly two millenniums ago, as manifest in the country houses of powerful nobles along the Neapolitan coastline . . . a large but not exhausting study of one culture absorbing and remaking the artistic legacy of another, to suit its own social purposes. Rome had vanquished Greece in the sack of Corinth in 146 BC, but the Romans didn't denigrate Greek art as something foreign and inferior. Instead, they regarded it as magnificent, something worth emulating and, if possible, enhancing—a sign of Rome's own much greater power and glory in having triumphed over a major civilization.”—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2009.
So-called Daughter of Marcus Nonius Balbus, 1st century, Herculaneum
Portrait of a Young Woman, Pompeii, House of the Citharist
Aphrodite (Syon House/Munich type), Rione Terra at Puteoli (Pozzuoli)
Boar and Hunting Dogs, Pompeii, House of the Citharist
Satyr and Hermaphrodite, Oplontis, so-called Villa of Poppaea
Statue of a Young Man (right foreground), Pompeii, House of the Scientist
Girl fastening her peplos (Peplophoros), Herculaneum, Villa dei Papiri
Basin and Stand, possibly Pompeii; Garden Scene, Pompeii, House of the Golden Bracelet
Plato’s Academy, Pompeii, Villa of T. Siminius Stephanus
The Moregine Triclinium: Apollo and the Muses, Moregine, Triclinium A
Skyphos Inlaid with Egyptian Figures (right foreground), Stabiae, Villa San Marco
Horse Head from a Public Monument, Herculaneum, from the theater
A Sculpture Gallery, 1874, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Nero, 1st century A.D.
