Opera set for the eruption of Vesuvius from Pacini’s “The Last Day of Pompeii,” about 1827–32, Carlo Sanquirico after Alessandro Sanquirico. The Getty Research Institute
More flames and flying rock at the Getty Villa in The Last Days of Pompeii
Date: Friday, Sept. 14 Pacini’s “The Last Days of Pompeii” is quite possibly my favourite painting i have seen so far...