Pompeii in The Visual and Performing Arts: Its Reception in Spain and Latin America

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nCONTENTS\nILLUSTRATIONS\nCONTRIBUTORS\nINTRODUCTION: THE RECEPTION OF POMPEII IN SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA Mirella Romero Recio\n	Before Pompeii\n	After Pompeii\n	Living in Pompeii\n	Seduced by Pompeii\n	New Pompeiis\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 1 THE ‘POMPEIAN HOUSE’ IN SPAIN: A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION BETWEEN REALITY AND UTOPIA1 Mirella Romero Recio\n	The Pompeian house and nineteenth-century Spanish architects\n	Adaptation of the Pompeian house in the early twentieth century\n	The Pompeian house as utopian project in Ciudad Lineal (Madrid)\n	By way of conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 2 ECHOES OF POMPEII IN MEXICO: ACADEMY, SOCIETY AND ART1 Aurelia Vargas Valencia and Elvia Carreño Velázquez\n	The Academy\n	Society\n	Clothing and personal grooming\n	Shows and public places\n	Art and the homeland\n	The legacy of Pompeii in present-day Mexico\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 3 ART AND RHETORIC FOR AN EMPIRE: THE POMPEIAN STYLE IN PUERTO RICO AND THE UNITED STATES DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY1 Daniel Expósito\n	‘Resembling a product of Herculaneum and Pompeii’: the Pompeian style in San Juan de Puerto Rico\n	Towards a visual genealogy of naval power: the Pompeian style in the US Capitol, Washington, DC\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 4 POMPEIAN INFLUENCES ON THE ELITE OF SANTIAGO DE CHILE: VISUAL ARTS, ANTIQUITIES AND ARCHITECTURE (NINETEENTH CENTURY)1 Carolina Valenzuela Matus\n	Classical taste: travel, collecting and antiquarianism\n	The Santiago elites and the Pompeian influence in palatial homes and public spaces\n	Conclusions\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 5 JOAQUÍN SOROLLA AND POMPEII: THE IMPACT OF A TRIP ON HIS LIFE AND HIS OEUVRE1 Ana Valtierra\n	His stay in Italy: a brief summary of his training and how he obtained a grant\n	The sketches of his trip: the importance of colour and architectural perspective\n	Coloured sketches, tracings and copies of ‘Pompeian’ decorations\n	Sorolla’s house and gardens in Madrid: always present recollections of his trip to Pompeii\n	The recreation of Pompeian ambiances in the oeuvre of Sorolla\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 6 THE REFLECTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD IN PICTORIAL SCENES: THE QUEST FOR THE POMPEIAN ATMOSPHERE IN SPANISH COSTUMBRIST PAINTINGS1 María Martín de Vidales García\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 7 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES OF POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM, AND THEIR RECEPTION THROUGH PLASTER COPIES AND PHOTOGRAPHY1 Jesús Salas Á lvarez\n	The importance of classical sculpture as a decorative element in Neapolitan palaces: originals and plaster casts\n	Classical sculpture as a decorative element in Spanish royal palaces\n	The Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the dissemination in Spain of the sculptures of Herculaneum and Pompeii\n	The role of the San Carlos Royal Academy in Mexico and the distribution of classical antiquities in America\n	Plaster casts of sculptures in the first half of the nineteenth century\n	Photography and its use to record the ruins at Pompeii\n	By way of conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 8 POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM IN CUBA: THE IMPACT OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS ON THE ISLAND’S VISUAL ARTS1 Federica Pezzoli\n	Nineteenth-century Cuba and the dissemination of and the taste for the neoclassical style\n	Gioacchino Albé, Daniel Dall’Aglio and Antonio Meucci\n	The Aldama Palace\n	The Cantero Palace\n	The Borrell Palace\n	The Esteban Theatre\n	Conclusions\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 9 EXCAVATING THE PAST AND FRAMING NEW IDENTITIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: VESUVIUS, POMPEII AND MODERNITY IN RIO DE JANEIRO1 Renata Senna Garraffoni\n	Excavating Pompeii: encounters between Naples and Brazil\n	From Naples to Rio de Janeiro: ancient Romans in Rio de Janeiro newspapers\n	Teresa Cristina: empress and archaeologist\n	The Catete Palace: one monument, many stories\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 10 POMPEIAN ECHOES IN RURAL HOUSES IN CENTRAL CHILE: THE QUEST FOR NEW IDENTITIES1 María Gabriela Huidobro Salazar\n	The estate house tradition in the Chilean Central Valley\n	Pompeian spaces in Santiago: the residence of José Arrieta Pereira\n	Maximiano Errázuriz’s Pompeian house\n	The Pompeian house of the Santa Rita vineyard\n	Conclusions\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 11 THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII: FROM LITERATURE TO COMICS IN LATIN AMERICA1 Laura Buitrago\n	Comics, illustrations and literature\n	The Classics in Latin America and Spain\n	Some final thoughts\n	Notes\n	References\nCHAPTER 12 THE LATIN AMERICAN POMPEIIS: FROM A LANDSCAPE IN RUINS TO THE IMAGE OF TRAGEDY1 Ricardo Del Molino García\n	Pompeii as a comparative reference for pre-Hispanic and colonial ruins\n	Pompeii as an image of tragedy in the twentieth-century Latin American cultural landscape\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\nEPILOGUE Shelley Hales\n	Eclecticism\n	Modernity and technology\n	Gender\n	Transforming a Continent\n	Conclusion\n	References\nINDEX