Salome is one of many “bad girls” in art history. The step-daughter of King Herod, she was partially responsible for killing John the Baptist. You can read the full story in Mark 6:14-30. Herod was hesitant to kill John, for…
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art Noah Charney and Ingrid Rowland
W. W. Norton & Company (2017)
Wise Words
"In every group of travelers, every bunch of tourists in a bus, there is at least one man who insists on pointing out to the others the beauty or interest of things they encounter, even though the others can see the things, too: we are that man, I am afraid, au fond." — Michael Baxandall