Surprised by Time

Two documents for Cyriaco of Ancona, one new, one ignored, that contribute to his portrait. * * * * * * * * * * Cyriaco  is...

Cyriaco's Mycenae, at Ag. Adrianos near Nauplion, 2 November 2014. Nearly three years ago I wrote about Cyriaco's visit to...

Archer. Detail from Mantegna , St. Sebastian.  Louvre. ca. 1475. From Cyriaco of Ancona, 5 July 1445, Cydonia, Crete. To ...

Dancers, based on a drawing by Cyriaco.  He may have been trying to draw these Samothraki dancers . In August 1446, Cyriaco of Ancon...

There are four dolphins on each of two candlesticks in this household. They were made in Athens about seventy years ago -- Renaissance...

 Watercolor of the Little Metropolis by Mary Hogarth, ca. 1910. When I was first in Athens in 1977, I was given to understand that...

  Late fifteenth-century Florentine painting from a series concerning  Jason and the Argonauts that makes great use of gilt and Byzanti...

Roman copy, Polykleitos, Diadumenos National Archaological Museum, Athens   Cyriaco has not been a guest here for too long so I have inv...

In the early spring of 1430, in Adrianople, Cyriaco of Ancona purchased Chaeonia who had been taken in an Ottoman raid.  Chaeonia may not h...

  Detail from a view of the Acropolis, before 1680, from a drawing in Bonn.  Pierre A. MacKay spoke at the Archaeological Institute of...

Cyriaco wrote about seeing these dancers on Samothraki, built into the new palace. In working on my talk for the AIA last week, I bec...