A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
June 6, 2020
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Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
June 2, 2020Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
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Celebrating Galileo in Florence
May 29, 20202009 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
May 28, 2020Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
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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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