Celebrating Galileo in Florence
May 29, 2020
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The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
May 27, 2020No 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
May 24, 2020If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized...
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Casanova by Ian Kelly
May 23, 2020Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
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Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
May 22, 2020A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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Imag(in)ing America
May 17, 2020The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and...
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Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
May 13, 2020Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
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Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
May 10, 2020A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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