The Art Ecosystem

much to the chagrin of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and other defenders of the genius of Rome

ISBN 978-0-89236978-2

after fleeing the Nazi regime

as well as in the emotional pull it immediately exerts upon the viewer

The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum BS2018 The Art EcosystemDavid Sider The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in CE 79 also buried nearby Herculaneum. Over time the location of the small town was forgotten, but shortly after its rediscovery in the 1730s, "excavations"more properly, treasure huntswere organized to unearth ancient sculpture. The richest finds were from a villa that came to be called the Villa dei Papiri, because it also yielded upward of a thousand papyrus rollsthe only library