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

This festschrift honours art historian Eugene Dwyer through ten essays on the art, archaeology and collecting history of the Bay of Naples and Italy. Covering Roman sculpture, antiquities collections, Pompeii, Vesuvius and cultural reception, it explores how ancient objects have been interpreted, displayed and reimagined over time.

Roman Copies, Collecting, and Culture in the Bay of Naples and Beyond presents ten chapters in celebration of the career, contributions, influence, and person of Eugene Dwyer, Professor of Art History Emeritus at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

The ten commissioned essays here are written by senior scholars in the fields of ancient Italic art history, architecture and archaeology, and focus on the visual and material culture of the Bay of Naples and Italy, from their points of creation in the late Republic and early Empire to their reception in the medieval, Early Modern, and Modern worlds. The essays are united in their engagement with topics of longstanding interest to their honorand: copies of famous marble statue types in antiquity (e.g., the Old Seneca in the Louvre, archaistic Athenas) and their later restorations and interpretation; the formation of collections of antiquities, from their original sites of display to their reconstitution in Early Modern venues (especially England); nineteenth and twentieth-century visual and poetic representations of Mount Vesuvius and of Giuseppe Fiorelli’s gypsum casts of Pompeian victims; and case studies of a wide array of both well-known and previously overlooked objects, whose imagery is subject to fresh interpretation and contextualized within its wider social and cultural settings.

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

• Edited by Sinclair W. Bell
• Edited by Brad Hostetler