Pompeii and Santorini. Eternity

The twisting, swirling lava flows that solidified around the crater's mouth offer a terrifying spectacle. They present themselves to the eyes and not only to the imagination - like snakes, crocodiles, sphinxes, as if those fabulous monsters had come to life, with which the childhood dreams of the first men populated the chaos" (Friedrich Hebbel, 1845). Akrotiri and Pompeii display the tragic eternity of a common destiny: two 'total' eruptions, more than seventeen hundred years apart, which abruptly interrupted the existence, affections and industriousness of communities caught in the thick of the plots of an ordinary day. More than 300 'ordinary' and unique artefacts, sculptures, frescoes, amphorae, reliefs, gems, incunabula, paintings, on display at the Scuderie del Quirinale, retrace intertwined stories, from the Bronze Age to modern and contemporary 'rediscoveries' and reinventions, questioning, once again, the fragments of A restless eternity. An unprecedented comparison between two founding myths of universal culture, between the West and our sea.

• Publication date: 10/30/19
• Dimensions: 24x30 cm
• Pages: 272
• Packaging: Paperback
• Language: Italian
• ISBN: 9788856907087