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The Last Day of Pompeii
Last Day of Pompeii
also: Последний день Помпеи
Karl Bryullov's monumental 1830-33 history painting depicting the eruption of Vesuvius, one of the most celebrated works of 19th-century Russian art and a byword for epic pictorial ambition.
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- A Woman's Toast §19 The Last Day of Pompeii
Karl Bryullov's monumental 1830-33 history painting of the eruption of Vesuvius, one of the most celebrated Russian paintings of the 19th century -- named here as a byword for epic pictorial ambition.