Stories By Judith Harris
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Archeology
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
June 6, 2020When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
May 29, 20202009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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Archeology
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
May 28, 2020Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
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Art
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
May 27, 2020No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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Biography
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
May 26, 2020“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
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Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
May 22, 2020A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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Germany
Imag(in)ing America
May 17, 2020The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and...
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Art
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
May 10, 2020A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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Culture and Heritage
What coronavirus costs to the Italian cultural heritage.
May 7, 2020Given that Italy’s is generally considered the world’s richest cultural heritage, maintenance of its historic monuments...
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Israel
Daniel Barenboim at La Scala
May 7, 2020Drama number three was the presence on the podium of Daniel Barenboim, the child prodigy born...
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