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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 five...
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...
Turing’s Cathedral
Pantheon, 2012 By Staff George Dyson is a rare bird, descended from a long line of creative genius, rendering him more than merely sympathetic to genius as...
King Solomon the Chakam or the Wizard?
SOLOMON TURNING TO IDOLATRY, Pierre Reymond, c. 1553-84, enamel on copper, 30 x 24 cm, acc. num. 44-197, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (by permission) by Patrick...
The Muse of History
By Staff What intellectual “postcard” should we choose to send ourselves from any great repository of history? Several of our Electrum Magazine staff-members...
Following The Art Thief
by Melissa Guertin Edvard Munch may not now be screaming over his work’s repeated purloinings (1995, 2004) from several museums, since they’ve been returned,...