Stories By Judith Harris
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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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Germany
Imag(in)ing America
July 6, 2022The 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
June 26, 2022A 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.
June 22, 2022Given that Italy’s is generally considered the world’s richest cultural heritage, maintenance of its historic monuments...
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