Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery
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| - | [[Judith Harris]] is the author of ''[[Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery]]''. | + | ''[[Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery]]'' is a book by [[Judith Harris]]. |
| :Nevertheless, in the earliest period of [[rediscovery of Pompeii|Pompeian excavations]], the same desire to understand the natural world that had caused [[Sir William Hamilton]] to study [[Vesuvius]] and publish his observations of the volcano encouraged him to question the significance of the [[erotica]] discoveries. | :Nevertheless, in the earliest period of [[rediscovery of Pompeii|Pompeian excavations]], the same desire to understand the natural world that had caused [[Sir William Hamilton]] to study [[Vesuvius]] and publish his observations of the volcano encouraged him to question the significance of the [[erotica]] discoveries. | ||
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Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery is a book by Judith Harris.
- Nevertheless, in the earliest period of Pompeian excavations, the same desire to understand the natural world that had caused Sir William Hamilton to study Vesuvius and publish his observations of the volcano encouraged him to question the significance of the erotica discoveries.
- “I have actually discovered the cult of Priapus in full vigour at Isernia”, he enthusiastically wrote to a friend in London in 1781. Indeed, on commission from Hamilton, the trained engraver Dominique-Vivant Denon, French chargé-d’affaires in Naples after 1782, stole time from organizing drawings of travel sights for the Abbé de Saint-Non, to make a series of drawings of the erotica based on the paintings and artefacts of Pompeii. Under the title Priapées et sujets divers, Denon’s drawings were published in France and circulated among cognoscenti.
- Hamilton’s own collection of wax phalluses from Isernia were given to the British Museum in 1784. Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii by Judith Harris[1]
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