Images of the Doomed City: the Last Days of Pompeii in the Visual Imagination September 20, 2012

The destruction of Pompeii - buried under the ashes of erupting Mount Vesuvius - was one of the most widespread and visually powerful motifs of 19th-century historical painting. This lecture will be presented by Adrian Stahli, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of the Classics, Harvard University.