Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte
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Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte (The Antiquities discovered in Herculaneum) is an 8 volume book. Its publication was initiated by command of Charles III of Spain and printed in Naples from 1755 to 1792.
These volume were to have a decisive influence on Neoclassicism.
They were not always favourably received. In 1775 the London review The Monthly review) called them "obscene trash" that "would be better consigned to oblivion".[1].
See also
- Herculaneum
- Villa of the Papyri
- Doryphoros
- 1740s in archaeology
- Italian Neoclassical and 19th century art
- Neoclassicism
- Pseudo-Seneca
- Karl Jakob Weber
- Seated Hermes
- Chelys
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