Luisa Ciammitti is curator at the Pinacoteca Nazionale

She is the author of Ethiopia at the Crossroads (2024) and Building the Medieval World (Getty

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

the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy record a payment to the scribe Nicolas Spierinc for having written "some prayers for my lord

the book also includes many artworks from Asia

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