Skip Pompeii, go to Herculaneum
August 27, 2010 – 10:50 am | View Comments

I was searching through some photos from field trips that I led for UGA in 2008 in a bout of nostalgia brought on by an upcoming visit from my friends Roy and Terry who were …

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Blue walls: Florence’s Bardini Museum and Isabel Stewart Gardner
June 10, 2010 – 2:55 pm | View Comments
Blue walls: Florence’s Bardini Museum and Isabel Stewart Gardner

When the Bardini Museum reopened last year the most remarkable aspect of the restoration was the return of Stefano Bardini’s blue walls. Bardini, a 19th century art dealer, left his show room and gallery, housed …

Three free iphone apps for travel in Italy
April 27, 2010 – 3:22 pm | View Comments
Three free iphone apps for travel in Italy

Sorry Blackberry users, but iphones these days are so popular, even the cat has one. If you’re traveling in Italy with your iphone you can take advantage of these three FREE apps to help you …

Drawings of Bronzino @Met NYC (closes April 18 2010)
April 13, 2010 – 2:33 pm | View Comments
Drawings of Bronzino @Met NYC (closes April 18 2010)

A guest post from my Mom, lucky duck went to New York!
This exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City closes April 18, 2010
A few weeks ago we visited Manhattan. Actually we stayed in …

Michelangelo Anatomy as Architecture in Williamsburg, VA
February 18, 2010 – 3:08 pm | View Comments
Michelangelo Anatomy as Architecture in Williamsburg, VA

Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture consists of drawings, archival pages, and engravings on loan from the finest collection of Michelangelo drawings and the ancestral home, the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy.  The exhibition explores new …

Atlanta: Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius
October 26, 2009 – 1:13 pm | View Comments
Atlanta: Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius

Name one sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci. Stuck? Me too. Leonardo is the great Renaissance man, the inventor, the draftsman whose wild lines imply motion and cannot be followed, the painter whose sfumato made mysterious …

Borghese paintings go to Japan; spark debate
October 14, 2009 – 9:02 am | View Comments
Borghese paintings go to Japan; spark debate

Raphael’s “Woman with Unicorn” is one of 48 works from Rome’s Borghese Gallery on their way to Japan, where they will stay 6 months at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto and the Metropolitan Musem of Tokyo …

The “new” Michelangelo at the Met (NY)
June 29, 2009 – 9:14 am | View Comments
The “new” Michelangelo at the Met (NY)

“Michelangelo’s first painting”, the Torment of Saint Anthony, is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York June 16, 2009-September 7, 2009 in the European Paintings Galleries, 2nd floor. It is on …

A “new” Artemisia: found, restored, on tour
May 19, 2009 – 8:12 am | View Comments
A “new” Artemisia: found, restored, on tour

Jane Fortune, Founder and Chair of the Florence Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, has been digging around the storage areas of the Pitti Palace looking for works by female artists. …

David takes 3 weeks off for holiday in Milan
May 15, 2009 – 8:11 am | View Comments
David takes 3 weeks off for holiday in Milan

Donatello’s Bronze David is the highlight of Florence’s Bargello Museum.
Recently restored on-site in the museum so as not to remove it from view, it is now in Milan for a short visit on occasion of …

Etruscan Bronze Chimaera takes FLR-LAX; display at Getty Villa
May 14, 2009 – 1:34 pm | View Comments
Etruscan Bronze Chimaera takes FLR-LAX; display at Getty Villa

July 16, 2009-February 8, 2010: The Getty Villa in Malibu CA is host to an exhibition that centers around an important loan from the Museo Archaeologico di Firenze, the famous Chimaera of Arezzo. The Etruscan bronze (4th c …

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