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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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Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
July 28, 2022Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
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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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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
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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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Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
July 17, 2022If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized...
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Casanova by Ian Kelly
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