May 17, 2011
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I’m anxiously waiting for Chasing Aphrodite (about the Getty and its acquisitions policy in the past) to show up at a bookstore I frequent (or as an ebook), but until then, I can listen to things on NPR: ‘Chasing Aphrodite’ And Other Dirty Art World Deals Transcript of the audio segment here …
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Seen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/sarahebond/status/70321014533398528
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ante diem xvi kalendas iunias 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Heradius 1510 — death of Botticelli (Birth of Venus, among other Classical subjects) 1902 — discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism
rogue classicism 