Selected art works depicting the destruction of Pompeii via the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
Pompeii, Robert S. Duncanson, 1855, From the collection of: Smithsonian American Art Museum
View of Vesuvius, John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831, British, undated, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art
Pompeii, A.D. 79, Alfred Elmore, 1815–1881, Irish, 1878, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art
Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples, Joseph Wright, Around 1776, From the collection of: Tate Britain
The Last Day of Pompeii, Karl Brullov, 1830/1833, From the collection of: The State Russian Museum
The Forum at Pompeii with Vesuvius in the Background, 1841, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum
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