Great Museums in Genova
The Cathedral of San Lorenzo and it's museums is well worth a visit.
The Cathedral of San Lorenzo and it's museums is well worth a visit.
This essay on Medieval Genoa is written by Professor Stephen A. Epstein of the History Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Professor George L. Gorse of the Art History Department of Pomona College, Claremont, CA After visiting Genoa in 1352, Petrarch (Le familiari, 14, 5, 23-5) wrote an important, early humanist laudation to [...]
This essay on Medieval Genoa is written by Professor Stephen A. Epstein of the History Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Professor George L. Gorse of the Art History Department of Pomona College, Claremont, CA (Watercolor painted by Jorge Eugenio Banzas, an Argentine artist living in Genoa in the eighties) Genoa and its [...]
This essay on Medieval Genoa is written by Professor Stephen A. Epstein of the History Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Professor George L. Gorse of the Art History Department of Pomona College, Claremont, CA The classical Genua was a modest Roman provincial town at the head of the gulf of Liguria, [...]
This essay on Medieval Genoa is written by Professor Stephen A. Epstein of the History Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Professor George L. Gorse of the Art History Department of Pomona College, Claremont, CA Genoa is a maritime theatre. Like a Greek theatre, the Apennines branch from the Alps, dramatically framing this [...]