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by Brian Curtis, Associate Professor, Painting/Drawing
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida SUMMER 2003 |
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Email: b.curtis@miami.edu
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| The suddenness of the catastrophe and the intensity of the human suffering of the 79 A.D. eruption has been hauntingly preserved in the body casts created by pouring plaster into the cavities that were left after the bodies of the victims who were buried under 30' of ashe decomposed. | |||||||||||||||||||
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