and an invocation to art historians who have abandoned the study of the ‘social life’ of art

Luisa Ciammitti is curator at the Pinacoteca Nazionale

including his Cubistic still-life images

For historic resources—whether a cultural landscape

2005) and Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices (University of California Press

Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum pop up and an invocation to artJean Bussire and Birgitta Lindros Wohl In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have much to reveal about life, religion, pottery, and trade in the ancient Graeco Roman world. Most of the Museums lamps have never before been published, and this