Antique Maps of Italy & Rome. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of Italy, Rome, Florence, Sicily, Naples and Venice from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
The most famous story about her says she was so hideous that people who gazed at her would turn to stone. But Medusa was a victim of the Greek gods as well as a victimizer.
1 February 2022 - Ryland Fisher recently raised an interesting question: what do we do with ‘the art created by monstrous men’ (and women)? It isn’t an easy question to answer. (Warning: this column quotes vile racist slurs.)
An old friend texted me last week to ask why I hadn t done a post on books I read in 2021. There is no particular reason; I did such a post in 2019, but I don t think I did one last year. But it is fun to think back and try to reconstruct my reading over the last year, and some of our readers may be interested in my reactions