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Leanda de Lisle’s The White King Opens Up A Marvelous Window
By Patrick Hunt – Readers used to courtly fanfare in larger than life Tudor and Jacobean characters – Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots and...
Scripta Manent: News from the Medici Grand Dukes
Medici Maiolica Armorial Plate, 16th. c. (image V&A) By Andrea M. Gáldy – Alessio Assonitis & Brian Sandberg, eds. The Grand Ducal Medici and their...
A New Baron Munchausen
Gottfried Franz, “Munchausen Riding the Cannon Ball” circa 1896 (image public domain) By P. F. Sommerfeldt – That far-fetched frolic of the rogue...
It’s Raining – Bronzes ! Florence Exhibitions of Ancient Bronze 2015
Hellenistic or Roman, probably after Lysippos (Greek, c. 365-c. 310 B.C.) Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (courtesy of Florence Exhibition) By Andrea M. Gáldy...
War! What Is It Good For? – Book Review
Battle Scene – recolored- on Trajan’s Column, Rome (Image Courtesy of National Geographic Media) By Jack Martinez – War! What is it Good For?...
Review: Irving Finkel’s The Ark Before Noah
Ottoman Period Noah’s Ark illumination from Sultanahmed Bazaar, Istanbul (Photo P. Hunt 2014) By Patrick Hunt – The Atrahasis Flood Tablet I first...
Odyssey from Iskenderun to Beirut to America: An Extraordinary Memoir in “The Way It Turned Out”
Iznik Tile, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Third Phase, 16th c. By P. F. Sommerfeldt – Memoirs are by nature usually suspect; this one truly raises the bar....
Turin’s Egyptian Museum
Egyptian Dancer painted on limestone ostracon, XIXth Dynasty, c. 1200 BCE, 20 x 15 cm, (Photo: P. Hunt 2012) By Patrick Hunt – Every year for the past...
Hannibal and Me: A Review
Hellenistic Marble Bust of Hannibal, likely from Capua, Italy (Photo in public domain ) By Patrick Hunt The subtitle of Andreas Kluth’s insightful book...
Schall’s Historic Photos of Paris and Remembering Paris
By Staff Rebecca Schall's Remembering Paris, 2010 Rebecca Schall has published several fascinating photographic histories of Paris with stunning black and white...