Randolph Rogers
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Randolph Rogers was an American Neoclassical sculptor. An expatriate who lived most of his life in Italy, his works ranged from popular subjects to major commissions, including the Columbus Doors at the U.S. Capitol and American Civil War monuments.
Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii (1853–54), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
East Front of the U.S. Capitol (c. 1875), showing Rogers's Columbus Doors (center, at top of stairs).
Ruth Gleaning (1853), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Angel of the Resurrection (1864) atop Colt Monument, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut.
The Last Days of Pompeii
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The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
First edition title page
The Last Day of Pompeii, Karl Bryullov
Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl by Randolph Rogers