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23
Feb
2023

Haydn and Mozart in the Long Nineteenth-Century

“What is there new to say about nineteenth-century Haydn and Mozart reception?” a musically-inclined friend asked me, with a glint in his eye, when I mentioned my book a few years ago. I started...
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9
Feb
2023

A Conversation with Jennifer Stager, author of...

Nandini Pandey (author of The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 2018) stepped out with Jennifer Stager (Seeing Color in Classical Art, 2022) for a walk around the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore,...
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4
Nov
2022

When is a Villa like a Hawk?

The Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti imagined houses as living beings: when they are happy they welcome you to their ‘bosom’, the central hall; when they are badly sited they...
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3
Nov
2022

Art before museums, galleries, the press, and the...

The medieval Mediterranean was a sea of exchange of cultures, religions, commodities, and worldviews. With a focus on monumental and panel painting, Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval...
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22
Sep
2022

Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire

When I lived in Germany, I was spoilt by choice so far as opera was concerned. I was in an area that had three large theatres separated by two rivers and all very close to one another. I certainly...
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15
Sep
2022

What have fish to do with Gothic ivories?

Around 1248, the merchants of Flanders submitted a complaint to the French king Louis IX about the malfeasance of customs agents at the Franco-Flemish border at Bapaumes. Among the specific complaints...
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8
Sep
2022

Why Ottoman Architecture? A Research Journey

Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire stems from my research on Ottoman architecture, which I began in summer 2014, shortly before the publication of my first book,...
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16
Jun
2022

Secular Acts and Bad Behavior in the Italian...

In the opening to The Decameron (c. 1350), Boccaccio described how the ten young people who would become storytellers in his book met in a Florentine church during the height of the Black Death: “it...
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