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A
perfect guide to prepare children and adults for a Pompeii exhibit as well as
to reinforce what they saw
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Bodies
From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii by
James M. Deem "an
impressively thorough overview" Selected
as one of the Best
Books for Young Adults 2006, a 2006 Notable Children's Trade Book
in the Field of Social Studies, and an Outstanding Science Trade Book
for Students K-12 for 2006.
More reviews Awards |
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From
the exhibit "A Day in Pompeii." Photo credit:
Copyright Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali-Soprintendenza
archeologica de Pompei
From
the exhibit "Tales from an Eruption." Photo Credit: Ethan
Lebovics.
Photograph
of the cast of a group of people found on the staircase of the House of
Fabius Rufus at Pompeii. From the exhibit "Tales from an Eruption."
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Only
one
Pompeii exhibit is
currently touring the United States:
Pompeii
and the Roman Villa:
Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples
at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, CA until
October 4, 2009
If you missed
the other recent Pompeii exhibits, you will not want to miss this
one, since many of the items shown in it are on display for
the first time in the United States. When it ends on October
4, the exhibit apparently will not be moving to another venue.
October 4th is the official ending date of exhibit's tour. NOTE: Only a few vintage photographs
of the plaster casts are included in the exhibit.
The exhibit features 150
works of sculpture, painting, mosaic, and luxury arts that
were used in the lavish villas built in Pompeii and its
surrounding suburbs. The exhibit is spread among fourteen
rooms, each thematically organized. Visitors will see portraits (and
possessions) of the home owners in the first three
rooms; statues, fountains,
sculptures, and frescoes from Pompeiian courtyards and
gardens in the next two rooms; the frescoed walls of a
triclinium (summer dining room) from Moregine in the
sixth room; sculpture, statues, and
frescoes that reflect a Greek influence on Pompeiian
homeowners and artists in the next group of rooms; and, after its
rediscovery, the way Pompeii affected and inspired
painters, sculptors, jewelers and more in the last
three rooms.
A 360-page
catalog (with 312 color and 53 b&w illustrations) is
available for $40.00 (softcover) in October 2008. Order
from LACMA.
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TEACHERS
& LIBRARIANS:
Even
though the previous two exhibits ("Tales from
an Eruption" and "A Day in
Pompeii") are no longer touring the United
States, you can still bring Pompeii to your
students by scheduling a school or library
visit (which includes his Pompeii PowerPoint),
with children's author James M. Deem. His book, Bodies
from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii,
won many
awards for its presentation of the facts
relating to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD
79 and Pompeii's subsequent rediscovery.
During
his visit,
James M. Deem uses a PowerPoint presentation to
enhance his talk; it contains many rare images
that he discovered during his research at the
Pompeii archives.
For
more information about scheduling a visit, contact
author James M. Deem here.
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- Previous
touring exhibits
- (no longer on tour in the
United States)
Tales
from an Eruption which
included 12 plaster and resin body casts ended its U.S.
tour in Houston on June 22, 2008. It has gone back to
Italy now, and apparently some of the objects included in
the exhibit are going to be part of the National Gallery's
new exhibit on Pompeiian villas (see above).
- A Day in Pompeii which
featured eight body casts ended its U.S. tour in
Charlotte, NC on January 4, 2009. After
the exhibit closed,
it was apparently shipped back to Italy for
refurbishment before going on the road again to (among
other places) Melbourne, Australia, and Liverpool,
England. The Victoria Museum in Melbourne, Australia,
will present the exhibit from June 26 to October 11,
2009.
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