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Archeology

A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages

by Judith Harris

August 6th, 2009

When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that is the very heart of Rome, was one of the first European public museums and a favorite haunt of the wealthy Grand Tourists from all over Europe. As of July 30 this venerable museum offers something novel to all tourists—a chance for a fresh look at a relatively neglected period of Roman history and the arts, the Middle Ages.

This article is filed under Archeology, Art & Design, History, Italy.

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard

by Judith Harris

March 3rd, 2009

Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is the one I would choose to read first.

This article is filed under Archeology, Art, History, Italy, Non-Fiction Reviews.

Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford

by Judith Harris

November 30th, 2008

A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away while making rude gestures about vaginas while holding up gemstones from classical antiquity and admiring painted Greco-Roman vases.

This article is filed under Archeology, Art, Great Britain, History, Italy, Non-Fiction Reviews.

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

by Elinor Teele

August 6th, 2008

Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish demanded. It is the same paradox that had English settlers starving on the shore while lobsters scuttled underfoot. If it wasn’t what they had imagined, it didn’t exist.

This article is filed under Archeology, History, Native American, Non-Fiction Reviews.

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