
The Spell of Marble
Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s immense artistic authority was based on his theatrical skill with the chisel.
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome
by Livio Pestilli
May 12, 2022 issue
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Ingrid D. Rowland is a Professor of History, Classics, and Architecture at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway. Her latest books are The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, cowritten with Noah Charney, and The Divine Spark of Syracuse. (May 2022)
The Spell of Marble
Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s immense artistic authority was based on his theatrical skill with the chisel.
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome
by Livio Pestilli
May 12, 2022 issue
Caught in the Coils
In Hans von Trotha’s haunting novel, the Gestapo is rounding up the Jews of Rome, but the archaeologist Ludwig Pollak refuses sanctuary in the Vatican and wishes only to recount his memories.
Pollak’s Arm
by Hans von Trotha, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer
April 7, 2022 issue
Nor Gloom of Night
In Vigdis Hjorth’s novel Long Live the Post Horn!, controversy over the European Union’s Third Postal Directive reveals that the mail service is one of the most powerful bonds connecting Norwegians.
Long Live the Post Horn!
by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund
August 19, 2021 issue
Light in the Palazzo
Hidden away and neglected for decades, works from the world’s greatest private collection of ancient sculptures are finally on public display in Rome.
The Torlonia Marbles: Collecting Masterpieces
an exhibition at the Capitoline Museums, Rome, October 14, 2020–June 29, 2021 (currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions)
May 13, 2021 issue
The Virtuoso
No less than Michelangelo but much more subtly, Raphael brought on revolutions in art and architecture, and in thought itself.
Raffaello 1520–1483
an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, June 2–August 30, 2020
August 20, 2020 issue
He Made Stone Speak
Late in life, Michelangelo took on a series of huge, daunting projects, fully aware that he would never live to see them completed.
Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
by William E. Wallace
July 2, 2020 issue
The Master’s Master
Andrea del Verrocchio epitomizes what the Renaissance of art in Florence was all about.
Verrocchio, Il Maestro di Leonardo [Verrocchio, Master of Leonardo]
an exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, March 9–July 14, 2019
Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 15, 2019–January 12, 2020
Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence
an exhibition at the Frick Collection, New York City, September 18, 2019–January 12, 2020
December 19, 2019 issue
Filling Our Eyes with Sunshine
Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life
an exhibition at Tate Modern, London, July 11, 2019–January 6, 2020
Olafur Eliasson: Experience
edited by Anna Engberg-Pedersen, with an essay by Michelle Kuo
Studio Olafur Eliasson: The Kitchen
by Olafur Eliasson, with a preface by Alice Waters
September 26, 2019 issue
‘A Painter Not Human’
No one, not even Leonardo or Piero della Francesca, has ever paid such penetrating attention to the way light works as Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina
an exhibition at the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia di Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, December 14, 2018–February 10, 2019
Antonello da Messina
an exhibition at the Palazzo Reale, Milan, February 21–June 2, 2019
May 9, 2019 issue
Roman Holidays
‘Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe’ by Victor Plahte Tschudi
Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe
by Victor Plahte Tschudi
June 28, 2018 issue
Norwegian Woods
The thrilling complications of Edvard Munch’s art
Towards the Forest: Knausgård on Munch
an exhibition at the Munch Museum, Oslo, May 6–October 8, 2017
Så mye lengsel på så liten flate [So Much Longing on Such a Small Surface]
by Karl Ove Knausgård
Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed
an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 24–October 9, 2017; the Met Breuer, New York City, November 15, 2017–February 4, 2018; and the Munch Museum, Oslo, May 12–September 9, 2018
December 7, 2017 issue
Roman Rivalries
Michelangelo and Sebastiano
an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, March 15–June 25, 2017
August 17, 2017 issue
Martin Luther’s Burning Questions
On the vast, unpredictable forces his rebellion unleashed
Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation
an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, October 30, 2016–January 15, 2017
Word and Image: Martin Luther’s Reformation
an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, October 7, 2016–January 22, 2017
Law and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation
an exhibition at the Pitts Theology Library, Atlanta, October 11, 2016–January 16, 2017
Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 20, 2016–March 26, 2017
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
by Lyndal Roper
Brand Luther: 1517, Printing, and the Making of the Reformation
by Andrew Pettegree
June 8, 2017 issue
The Virtuoso of Compassion
Italy in the 17th century was a magnet for ambitious artists. Why was Caravaggio’s influence so overwhelming?
Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 7, 2016–January 22, 2017; and the Musée du Louvre, Paris, February 20–May 22, 2017
Beyond Caravaggio
an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, October 12, 2016–January 15, 2017; the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, February 11–May 14, 2017; and the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, June 17–September 24, 2017
The Guardian of Mercy: How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today
by Terence Ward
The Seven Acts of Mercy
a play by Anders Lustgarten, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, November 24, 2016–February 10, 2017
May 11, 2017 issue
The Long Reach of Rome
The Genesis of Roman Architecture
by John North Hopkins
Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple
edited by Michael Jones and Susanna McFadden
Rome 1600: The City and the Visual Arts Under Clement VIII
by Clare Robertson
April 20, 2017 issue
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