Les planches vésuviennes de l’Encyclopédie (1768). Et autres représentations de volcans au XVIIIe siècle entre Naples et la France

Domenico Laurenza

2024-01-01

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Abstract

The study presents unknown forms of connection between the iconography of Vesuvius produced in 18th-century Naples and volcanological images produced in France in the same period. The analysis begins with a nucleus of landscapes published in 1768 in the Encyclopédie and continues by exploring the iconography associated with the important discovery of extinct French volcanoes in the second half of the 18th century. In both cases, influences and forms of parallel development emerge between the French and the Vesuvian iconography, at a time when the images of artists and scientists tended to coincide and to use the realistic language of the ‘veduta’.