Stories By Judith Harris
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Art
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...
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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...
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Architecture
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,...
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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,...
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Art & Design
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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Art & Design
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
December 14, 20232009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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History
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
December 13, 2023Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
December 12, 2023No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
December 10, 2023“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
December 5, 2023A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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