Rediscovering the ancient world on the Bay of Naples, 1710-1890

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The Antiquarian Culture of Eighteenth-Century Naples as a Laboratory of New Ideas / Alain Schnapp -- The Herculaneum Women in Eighteenth-Century Europe / Jens Daehner -- The Sacrarium of Isis in the Praedia of Julia Felix in Pompeii in Its Archaeological and Historical Contexts / Christopher Parslow -- Politics and Royal Patronage in the Neapolitan Regency: The Correspondence of Charles III and the Prince of San Nicandro, 1759-1767 / Carlo Knight -- "To the Catholic King" and Others: Bernardo Tanucci's Correspondence and the Herculaneum Project / John E. Moore -- German Painters in Naples and Their Contribution to the Revival of Antiquity, 1760-1799 / Steffi Roettgen -- The Ferdinand IV Donation to the First Consul and His Wife: Antiquities from the Bay of Naples at Malmaison / Sophie Descamps-Lequime -- Flying Maenads and Cupids: Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Eighteenth-Century Decorative Arts / Nancy H. Ramage -- Grecian Taste and Neapolitan Spirit: Grand Tour Portraits of the Society of Dilettanti / Bruce Redford -- Literary Evocations of Herculaneum in the Nineteenth Century / Eric M. Moormann -- Taste and the Antique: Visiting Pompeii in the Nineteenth Century / Mary Beard -- "Speaking Ruins": Piranesi and Desprez at Pompeii / John Pinto -- Pompeii versus Herculaneum / Eugene J. Dwyer.