New on Verso: Essay by Karl-Magnus Brose

New on Verso: Essay by Karl-Magnus Brose

In a new post on Verso, ‘Applied Arts or Ancient Sculp­ture? A Renais­sance Gem in the Census Data­base’, Karl-Magnus Brose explores how minia­ture, carved stones were unders­tood as sculp­tures in their own right before the marble statue became the bench­mark of...
Census in the Sole 24 Ore

Census in the Sole 24 Ore

An article published by Salva­tore Settis in the Sunday culture pages of the Italian paper “Il Sole 24 Ore” reflects on the history of the Census and its metho­do­logy, which is compared to the approach taken in the volumes “Taste and the Antique. The Lure of...