Roman Copies, Collecting, and Culture in the Bay of Naples and Beyond
Papers in Honor of Eugene J. Dwyer
Edited by Sinclair W. Bell Edited by Brad Hostetler
Paperback (Forthcoming)
(October 2026)
ISBN: 9781805833741
7.99 x 10.91 inches
Price: $49.00
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
Other Titles in this Series
Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside
New Perspectives and Controversies
Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean
A Comparative Archaeological Study at Antiochia ad Cragum (Turkey) and Delos (Greece)
I reperti e i motivi egizi ed egittizzanti a Pompei
Indagine preliminare per una loro contestualizzazione
Die Ausrüstung der römischen Armee auf der Siegessäule des Marcus Aurelius in Rom
Ein Vergleich zwischen der skulpturalen Darstellung und den archäologischen Bodenfunden
Excavations at Chester. The Northern and Eastern Roman Extramural Settlements
Excavations 1990-2019 and other investigations
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