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PLINY IN POMPEII

2012

ACRYLIC & OIL ON CANVAS

24'' x 18''

The fiery cataclysm that befell southern Italy in 79 AD paradoxically destroyed yet preserved some of the best known ancient Roman ruins in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pliny the Elder perished in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, an historian who wished to transmit the knowledge of his era to the next. We can wonder how he might have felt in those last moments on the stone-pavement streets of Pompeii as he looked up at the darkening sky, if he had known that his words and part his civilization would be preserved to the present day.