Sublime

de Certeau's `poaching' model emphasizes the process of making meaning and the fluidity of popular interpretation"

The spoken word, the found object, the trace left behind become faces of the real.

But the search for a Roman reality behind the charges very much misses the point of these texts: they are the product of an ideology that represented the struggle against tyranny in terms of a struggle against the Jews.

Collection management should be geared primarily to identified needs rather than to abstract standards of quality;

they reveal familiar scenes of an urban life where order and disorder were entangled before they came to be opposed, rather than some hidden criminal underworld.

Rossiello

Nothing would have confirmed Petrarch’s view of Venetians’ material obsessions so much as the journey of Giosafat Barbaro, a merchant and diplomat who set out from Tana with 120 laborers to search a Scythian burial mound on the steppes for treasure. In 1447, he traveled by sledge up the frozen rivers, but “found the ground so hard, we were constrai

Titian’s work would not appear in isolation but rather in an unfolding historical, cultural, and personal narrative.