Randolp Randolph Rogers The Last Days Of Pompeii

As you walk the streets of pompeii, there are hundreds of people that surround you screaming, pushing, falling, panicking, all trying to escape the volcanic ash as Mount Vesuvius erupts completely burying the city of pompeii. From every direction as you listen, you can hear the sounds of terror, buildings collapsing, the ground rumbling, and the overturning of all the markets, but through it all, your hand is raised to your ear in search of the one who’s voice you fell in love with, Glaucus. As the commotion scares you as well as others and as your heart is blinder than your eyes,, you cannot see the chaos as it falls because your eyes see nothing but darkness and for that you are Nydia the blind flower girl of pompeii. Randolph Rogers’s sculptor of Nydia was inspired by the novel called The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. …show more content…
His interest was mainly on wood cuts and wood engraving but he later discovered that he had a hidden talent as a sculptor. He began his study in Florence in 1848 under Lorenzo Bartolini and later moved to Rome in 1851 to open a studio till his death in 1892. Randolph Rogers benefited from working with marble sculptures which he wasn’t very fond of but because most of his works were respected and admired by many, many of them were copied/replicated with his supervision. One of his most popular works was a marble sculpture he designed in 1853-1854 called Nydia the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii. It has been replicated over 167 time at least 77 of them are carved in marble, one being in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York