Stories By Judith Harris
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Art
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
November 15, 2022In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
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Art
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
August 23, 2022Before 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
August 16, 2022Born 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
August 8, 2022Mawer’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
August 3, 2022When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 23, 20222009 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
July 22, 2022Nevertheless, 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
July 21, 2022No 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
July 20, 2022“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
July 15, 2022A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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