Overview :As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an int... Read More
Overview :Bored teenager Curzio Inghirami staged perhaps the most outlandish prank of the seventeenth century when he hatched a wild scheme that preye... Read More
Overview :When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcan... Read More
Overview :Luminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art. In the three cen... Read More
Overview :Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biograph... Read More
Overview :From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to th... Read More
Overview :Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents--a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar--but he is best known for Lives of... Read More
Overview :Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forl , Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, a... Read More