Houses and Monuments of Pompeii: The Work of Fausto and Felice Niccolini BTS Books and Games Eileen Cowin The Article Eileen Cowin French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the J The discovery of and excavations at Pompeii in the second half of the eighteenth century not only provided historians with a trove of information about ancient Roman civilization but also fired artists' imaginations and inaugurated the vogue for the Pompeian style that so influenced the West in the nineteenth century Le case i monumenti di Pompeii (1854) of Fausto and Felice Niccolini—the first work to present completely and systematically all the public and private buildings so far excavated in Pompeii