Luisa Ciammitti is curator at the Pinacoteca Nazionale

and the advanced and liberal ideas of the founding fathers

the evolution of modern photography fueled an interest in visual contact with the rest of the world

the book also includes many artworks from Asia

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

Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum pop up Luisa Ciammitti is curator atJean 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