It is often said that impressionism sought to make represented
time and the time of representation coterminous. With its seemingly
quick and unpolished touch, it gave the modern cultures of speed
their first appropriately modernist forms. But art...
I should admit at the outset to a guilty conscience. I should
have been a physicist (it was my best subject), but around the age
of fifteen was converted to the humanities by an enthusiastic
English teacher who had been a professional actor. Plato’s...
Besides Rome itself, there are principally two cities in Roman
Italy that vie for the attention of both scholars and the public at
large: Ostia and Pompeii. The latter is known for its tragic end in
the volcanic eruption of 79 C.E., for fascinating...
In June 2012, an early work by Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) was
found in an armored cabinet in the basement of the Zentralinstitut
für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. The study, “Die
Gestaltungsprincipien Michelangelos, Besonders in ihrem Verhältnis
zu...
The study of cinematic representations of ancient history is one
of the most rapidly rising fields of classical scholarship. As an
important part of the modern reception of classical antiquity,
movies inspired by Greek and Roman myth and history are...
Volume III of Visible Spirit: The Art of Gianlorenzo
Bernini (Pindar Press, 2013) by Irving
Lavin, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies,
has been published. This final volume completes a collection of
Lavin's papers on Baroque...
Harvard University Press has published Volume 6, Books 28–39, of
The
Histories by Polybius (Loeb Classical Library, 2012), edited by
Christian Habicht, Professor Emeritus in
the School of Historical Studies, and F. W.
Walbank and translated by W. R...
The need for an official Institute seal was one of the first things that Abraham Flexner, founding Director of the Institute, turned his attention to even before preliminary financial and practical arrangements were in place.
