The Villa Laurentina of Pliny the Younger in an 18th Century Vision

Introduction
Chapter I. Stanislaw Kostka Potocki: archaeology and artistic culture in the 2nd half of the eighteenth century
1.The fascination with Antiquity and its influence in the 2nd half of the eighteenth century
2.Stanis³aw Kostka Potocki in the Memoirs of Eyewitness
3.Stanis³aw Kostka Potocki's studies at the Royal Academy in Turin
4.Stanis³aw Kostka Potocki's travels around Italy in 1774-82
5.In the company of Princess Izabela Lubomirska: Stanis³aw Kostka Potocki's sojourn in Italy in 1785-86

Chapter II. The Laurentina - Pliny the Younger's villa marittima and its reconstruction in "the pure taste of the century of Trajan"
1. A literary portrait of the Laurentina - "the dwelling-place of the Muses
2.The owner of the Laurentina
3.The search for the remnants of the Laurentina in the eighteenth century and later
4.Pliny's letter on the Laurentina in European culture from the Renaissance to neoclassicism
5.Artists employed by Stanis³aw Kostka Potocki, and their drawings
6.Reconstruction drawings of the Laurentina and remarks on the Notes et Idées sur la Villa de Pline
7.Reconstruction of Pliny's villa, decoration of the main rooms, patterns and inspirations
8.The cryptoportico with adjacent pavilions and the heliocaminus
9. Some notes on the Ideas Guiding the Plan for Pliny's villa by Potocki

Chapter III. The third dimension of Pliny the Younger's villa. Virtual reconstruction of the Laurentina

Instead of an epilogue: the Laurentina of Potocki's vision and the artistic culture of neoclassical Warsaw

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Appendices
I. Pliny the Younger, Letter to Gallus (2, 17)
II. Stanis³aw Kostka Potocki, Notes and Ideas on Pliny's Villa
III. Notes and explanations in the portfolios containing the drawings

Bibliography