Abstract
In the subterranean vault that houses the photographic archive of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, in Montreal, is a nineteenth-century album of photographs of Pompeii. In one of the images in this album a wide flight of stone steps in the foreground leads to a rectangular space flanked by broken colonnades. A woman stands in this space, her voluminous dress forming a broad-based cone, her face lost in shadow under the broad brim of a hat with a dark ribbon. The photograph is captioned ‘Rasilica’.1
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Burgin, V. (2009). Monument and Melancholia. In: Staiger, U., Steiner, H., Webber, A. (eds) Memory Culture and the Contemporary City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246959_2
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