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Niccolini brothers revive Pompeii’s vibrant life through stunning lithographs.

Fausto & Felice Niccolini

Houses and Monuments of Pompeii. 45th Ed.

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  • Hardcover

    512 pages

  • Release Date

    30 October 2026

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Summary

When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, they documented the buildings, frescos, statues, as well as the most ordinary everyday objects, of the city buried in just 24 hours by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius and preserved for over 1,600 years under a mantle of volcanic ash.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9783754400197
ISBN-10:3754400193
Author:Sebastian Schütze, Valentin Kockel
Publisher:Taschen GmbH
Imprint:Taschen GmbH
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:512
Release Date:30 October 2026
Weight:1.20kg
Dimensions:36mm x 165mm x 228mm
Series:45th Edition
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B-Format
Fausto & Felice Niccolini by Sebastian Schütze - ISBN: 9783754400197
165 × 228 mm
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A4
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Critics Review

The precious treasures of Pompeii are now secured for posterity. * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *

About The Author

Sebastian Schütze

Sebastian Schütze

Sebastian Schütze is a longtime research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. He is a member of the academic board of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, and a member of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. From 2003 to 2009 he held the Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen’s University in Kingston. In 2009 he was appointed professor of early modern art history at Vienna University.

Valentin Kockel

Valentin Kockel studied classical archaeology and obtained his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on the necropolises of Pompeii. He has worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and until 2014 he was Professor at Augsburg University. Kockel has headed excavations in Ostia Antica and at the Forum in Pompeii.

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