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Contents 1. Press release 3 2. Presentation of the exhibition by Stefano de Caro 4 3. A tour of the exhibition through the objects presented 7 4. «Love on the walls» by Antonio Varone 10 5. Extracts from the catalogue 13 « The matron in her house » by Marine Bretin-Chabrol 13 « Water and its uses around the home » by Hélène Dessales 14 « Gardens » by Annamaria Ciarallo 14 « The discovery of Pompeii and its effects on European culture » by Cesare de Seta 6. List of the objects on show 17 7. Visual documents available for the media 27 8. Useful information 33 PRESS CONTACTS Agence Observatoire 2 rue mouton duvernet - 75014 Paris Céline Echinard +33 (0)1 43 54 87 71 celine@observatoire.fr www.observatoire.fr Musée Maillol Claude Unger +33 (0)6 14 71 27 02 cunger@museemaillol.com Elisabeth Apprédérisse +33 (0)1 42 22 57 25 eapprederisse@museemaillol.com 15 2
1. Press release THE MUSÉE MAILLOL presents the exhibition Pompeii - A Way of Life From 21 September 2011 to 12 February 2012 The Musée Maillol conceived this exhibition – under the guidance of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activity and of the Special Superintendence for the Archeological Heritage of Naples and Pompeii, and the museum’s artistic director, Patrizia Nitti, in accordance with the President of the Dina Vierny, Olivier Lorquin – to show the modernity of Roman civilisation, the bedrock and inevitable precursor of our Western culture. A domus pompeiana – a Pompeiian house – will be brought to life through its most famous and traditional rooms: the atrium, triclinium and culina, the peristyle around the garden, the balneum and venereum. Each room will be decorated with frescoes and objects, including 200 works from Pompeii and other sites around Vesuvius. While there are numerous and often well preserved public monuments from the Roman Empire – theatres, amphitheatres, spas, temples – apart from the ones found buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD at Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, private houses are rare and have never been found complete anywhere else. These houses and villas still fascinate us because of their state of preservation. Their infrastructure – running water, heating systems, sewers, use of green spaces, right down to the design of their everyday objects – seems spectacularly modern. The exhibition will invite visitors to walk around in this house as if it were their own, creating the illusion that they are guests of the owners, despite the 2,000 years that separate us from them. Musée Maillol Olivier Lorquin, President Patrizia Nitti, Artistic Director Scientific Committee Teresa Elena Cinquantaquattro, Superintendant, Special Superintendence for the Archeological Heritage of Naples and Pomeii, Alain Pasquier, Honorary General Curator Exhibition Commission Valeria Sampaolo, Director of the Naples National Archeological Museum Antonio Varone, Excavations Director at Pompeii Stefano De Caro, Honorary Director General of Archeological Heritage, professor at the University of Federico II in Naples Design Hubert Le Gall 3
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Page 6 and 7: posterity by Gustave Boulanger in a
Page 8 and 9: with blind loggias that seem to app
Page 10 and 11: 4. « Love on the walls » by Anton
Page 12 and 13: It is this subject that is behind o
Page 14 and 15: « Water, and its uses around the h
Page 16 and 17: English artists, just like their Fr
Page 18 and 19: Fresque avec Dionysos trônant fres
Page 20 and 21: Récipient pour la cuisson (caccabu
Page 22 and 23: Petite table bois et bronze H. 66 ;
Page 24 and 25: Satyre et ménade fresque H. 46 ; L
Page 26 and 27: Épingle à cheveux os l. 12 cm Inv
Page 28 and 29: Œnochoé à tête de femme bronze
Page 30 and 31: Cratère avec figures mythologiques
Page 32 and 33: Baignoire bronze H. 44 ; L. max 63

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