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illustrations Figure 1. Amable-Paul Coutan, View of Pompeii 25 Figure 2. Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, Eruption of Vesuvius, Aug.  of the Year  (1813) 26 Figure 3. Paul Hippolyte René Roussel, Nonia, Dancer of Pompeii (1909) 75 Figure 4. Charles Amable Lenoir, Dancer of Pompeii (1913) 76 Figure 5. Paul Alfred de Curzon, A Dream in the Ruins of Pompeii (1866) 79 Figure 6. Carl Weichardt, The Temple of Augustus (1897) 80 Figure 7. Jules-Frédéric Bouchet, Ancient Scene in a Palace at Pompeii 82 Figure 8. Després, View of the Temple of Isis at Pompeii in Its Current State (1779) 87 Figure 9. Després, The Temple of Isis at Pompeii as It Must Have Been in the Year  88 Figure 10. Karl Pavlovitch Briullov, The Last Day of Pompeii (1833) 156 Figure 11. Frédéric Henri Schopin, The Last Days of Pompeii 156 Figure 12. Théodore Chassériau, The Tepidarium (1853) 207 Figure 13. Edouard A. Sain, Excavation at Pompeii (1865) 209 Figure 14. Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg, Interior of the Library of the Pompeian Palace (1866) 211 Figure 15. J. Laplanche, View of the Pompeian Palace of Prince Napoleon: The Atrium (1863) 212 Figure 16. Gustave Boulanger, Rehearsal of ‘‘The Flute Player’’ and ‘‘The Wife of Diomedes’’ in the Atrium of Prince Napoleon’s Pompeian House in Paris (1860) 214 ...

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