Surprised by Time

 by Rowan Williams To the City 1. Bosphorus Once there were chains between the towers shackling the green-black forest wall...

General George Patton, Jr., 1885-1945,  National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC Here are portraits of warriors, dressed to bes...

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

Wunderkammern fascinate me, so I have made my own small cabinet of small things that belong no place in particular. Small things attr...

A book on which I have been working far too long – The Greek Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio. Vol. 2:  Dispacci   from Candia, 1500-1...

This is the front door of Bettina Schinas' house, opposite. Ag. Giorgios. The door was imported from Trieste, probably just after 1...

Elizabeth I, the “sieve” portrait.  Quentin Metsys the Younger, 1583.  Pinacotecta Nazionale di Siena. I have become add...

Demetrios Pepagomenos was the second of the four speakers at Cleofe's memorial. I have written about these monodies at other tim...

Basilissa of the Tsavelas herd, Karitena, 1987. We tend to think of “the” scapegoat, but in the original Leviticus text, there ar...

This is an entry for people who like lists.  Over the last several years I have collected all the names I can find of the dynatoi in the Mo...