Stefan Bauer

‘A Perspective View of the City of Naples’, by Thomas Bowles III, 18th century. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public Domain.

‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review

Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia – Amedeo Feniello’s history of the Camorra – has this much in common with the case against them: it’s all about the evidence.

Hercules Protects Painting from Ignorance and Envy

It’s Bliss

Is knowledge a useful remedy for ignorance?

St Jerome and St Ambrose, by Juan de Borgoña, c.1510.

History of a Memory

The curation, control and censorship of the life of the elusive St Ambrose.

Playing Saints

Unmasking an audacious saintly fraud in early modern Naples.