Stories By Judith Harris
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Art
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
June 23, 2020Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
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Architecture
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
June 18, 2020Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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Architecture
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
June 11, 2020Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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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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