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The Last Days Of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse And Resurrection

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Getty Villa, Malibu, California, USA   12 September 20127 January 2013
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The Last Days Of Pompeii explored the continuing fascination with Pompeii through three themes: decadence, apocalypse and resurrection. This exhibition sought to document how, since the rediscovery of the site in the early 1700s, four centuries of leading artists - from Piranesi, Fragonard, Ingres, and Alma-Tadema to Duchamp, Dalí, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley - have been inspired to re-imagine it in diverse media, including paintings, prints, sculpture photographs and film. Among the works on display was Antony Gormley's Untitled (2002).

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