Surprised by Time

   Konstantinos Schinas in 1853 as Greek Minister to Munich       In the summer of 1835, Athens was struck by an epidemic.  Bett...

Hesiod manuscript Milan (?) [Identification help needed.] ll. 383-404) When the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas, are rising (May), begin...

Horses in a valley: detail from a Chinese scroll. DW collection.   This is a lullaby my mother, Martha Jordan, was sung as a baby...

Detail, icon of S. Georgio dei Greci, Georgios Klontzas, 16th C. Istituto Ellenico, Venice I have already written here about the a...

Map of the Argolid Peninsula by Piri Re’is.  Before 1540. (You may need to click on the map to get the whole thing.) This...

Methoni castle (Kal 'a-i Metoni) 1509, Kemal Paşa Zade, Tevâŕh-i Al-i Osmân (Ms. Dresd. Eb.391) [Late note: A correspondent has ...

Kaïka, or Caïque, by Karl Krazeisen.   The first part of this entry was published in November 2010 : then I forgot about it. This con...

Vilhelm Hammershoi, Interior, 1901. In April-July 2011, the Metropolitan Museum of Art had an exhibition of some seventy paintings...