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Inside Pompeii
A visually stunning, intimate photographic tour of Pompeii’s spaces, including many that have never been seen by the public. Pompeii, one of the most astonishing and well-preserved sites of classical antiquity, is also one of the world’s most visited architectural sites. This lavish volume takes readers on a tour of Pompeii through an array of visually compelling and original photographs by Italian artist Luigi Spina. Produced in partnership with the Parco Archeologico di Pompei, readers are expertly guided through the Roman city’s nine districts, including many hidden corners that are inaccessible to most visitors. Pompeii’s architecture is a central feature of the images, which wer...
Faces of Rome at Centrale Montemartini
Il volume presenta la raffinata ricerca fotografica di Lugi Spina sul tema della ritrattistica antica, compiuta sulla collezione di sculture dei Musei Capitolini ospitata nella Centrale Montemartini di Roma, che con oltre seicento statue è una delle raccolte più importante al mondo. Le sessanta fotografie qui proposte - realizzate in bianco e nero, con banco ottico e stampate a mano dallo stesso autore - ritraggono opere scultoree di epoca romana, di età repubblicana e imperiale, raffiguranti sia personaggi sconosciuti, sia volti noti, sia copie di originali greci dal carattere ideale. Luigi Spina attraverso un sapiente uso della luce e delle ombre sembra infondere vita e calore al marmo che ritrae, offrendo all'osservatore una rassegna che svela quanto questi volti rivelino aspetti dell'animo umano immortali e universali. Le fotografie diventano così uno strumento di conoscenza dell'opera d'arte antica, specchio di un mondo che scopriamo non molto distante dal nostro. Saggi di: Claudio Parisi Presicce, Luigi Spina, Davide Vargas.
Berlin Wall
Over 200 previously unpublished photographs document the building and development of the many check points, barbed wire barriers, and alarmed fences which formed the concrete wall around Berlin. This book tells dramatic tales of spectacular escapes and terrible deaths, and explains the history making events surrounding the building and fall of the Wall. Contemporary photographs are contrasted with photographs from the eighties to offer surprising insights into how the former death strip has changed since 1990. Relics of the wall in the current cityscape are prominently illustrated, including remnants of the Wall itself, expanded metal lattice fences, observation towers, barbed wire and concrete posts. Also included are statistics showing the numbers of refugees and victims of the Wall, a guide to the museums and memorials and a summary of the literature and cinema treatment of the Wall, along with a brief chronicle of its history.
Sing Sing. Pompeii's Body
- A collection of black and white images of hidden artifacts from Pompeii, held at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples- Features previously unpublished materialThis photographic narrative by Luigi Spina reveals unexpected treasures that hail from Pompeii and Ercolano, hidden from the public eye and concealed under the roofs of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. Spina's collection of black and white photographs gives the reader a glimpse of the bronze, glass, ceramic, and terracotta artifacts such as candle sticks, decorations, handles, statues, pots, oil lamps and even charred bread, that fill the cells in this Neapolitan institution.Text in English and Italian.
War in Words
Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary contextualization of the productive acquisitions and transformations of the arts and sciences of Antiquity in the slow process of the European societies constructing a scientific system and their own cultural identity, a process which started in the Middle Ages and has continued up to the Modern Age. The series is a product of work in the Collaborative Research Centre "Transformations of Antiquity" and the "August Boeckh Centre of Antiquity" at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Their individual projects examine transformational processes on three levels in particular ‒ the constitutive function of Antiquity in the formation of the European knowledge society, the role of Antiquity in the genesis of modern cultural identities and self-constructions, and the forms of reception in art, literature, translation and media.
Mythical Diary
Mythical Diary is a visual journey through the classical sculpture of the Archaeological Museum of Naples. It is a physical engagement with the marble bodies of myth. Through his black and white photography, Luigi Spina disassembles the limbs of the sculptures, emphasizing their curves and hidden eroticism, humanizing them to establish a dialogue with the observer. Sculpture is a sign of eternal, unchanging beauty: the only true testimony of many lives that have passed and come to an end, leaving a profound mark in the story of many other existences. For Spina, with his own vision of sculpture, a statue of Aphrodite is not merely a stereotypical portrayal of myth. In it are gathered the anxi...
The Alexander Mosaic
- Examines The Alexander Mosaic also known as the 'Battle of Issus' with photography by Luigi Spina and essays by Valeria Sampaolo and Fausto Zevi - The third volume in the Hidden Treasures series The third volume in the Hidden Treasures series launched in 2018 with the Farnese Cup examines another undoubted masterpiece: The Alexander Mosaic. It is certainly one of the great attractions for visitors who everyday throng the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. The mosaic is made up of over one and a half million tesserae, arranged asymmetrically using the opus vermiculatum technique, which allows the figures to be outlined to make them stand out against the background. Luigi...
Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome
Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.
The Deaths of Seneca
The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured death scenes from classical antiquity. Here, James Ker offers a comprehensive cultural history of Seneca's death scene, situating it in the Roman imagination and tracing its many subsequent interpretations.
Remembering Parthenope
This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's foundation. Adopting a chronological approach, chapters examine important moments in Naples' reception history from the Roman period (when the city was already several centuries old) to the present day. Among the topics covered are representations of the city's early history and mythology in texts and temples of the Roman period; later uses of Roman spolia (marble sculptures and architectural elements) in Christian churches; the importance of antiquity to the rulers of the Angevin and Swabian pe...
