Stories By Judith Harris
History
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
March 14, 2025A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Imag(in)ing America
March 5, 2025The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Culture and Heritage
What coronavirus costs to the Italian cultural heritage.
February 19, 2025Given that Italy’s is generally considered the world’s richest cultural heritage, maintenance of its historic monuments...
Music
Daniel Barenboim at La Scala
February 18, 2025Drama number three was the presence on the podium of Daniel Barenboim, the child prodigy born...
Art & Design
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
March 27, 2024In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
January 11, 2024Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
Art & Design
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
January 5, 2024Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Fiction Reviews
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
December 29, 2023Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
Archeology
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
December 23, 2023When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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