Book Review of Conservation of Ruins, edited by John Ashurst
2008; Archaeological Institute of America; Volume: 112; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3764/ajaonline1123.stieber
ISSN1939-828X
Autores Tópico(s)Archaeological Research and Protection
ResumoJoseph Severn’s 1845 Portrait of Shelley at the Baths of Caracalla, which now hangs in Keats’ House, Rome, perfectly captures the romantic ideal of poetic inspiration. It shows the poet Shelley in a typically romanticized setting, in the act of composing Acts 2 and 3 of Prometheus Unbound in 1819 amid a famous, and famously picturesque, ancient ruin, one still visible in Rome today. Of his visit to the baths, Shelley wrote: “Never was desolation more sublime and lovely.” Overrun with rambling vegetation, the arched ruins look the very essence of the Romanticist view of classical antiquity.
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