Discover Italy’s southern crossroads of culture. Verdant Sicily, set amid blue seas, is not only regarded as the Blessed Isle, the ancient Island of Persephone, and a fertile place sacred in Homeric epic and myth, but also has a remarkable history, having been occupied over the millennia by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Moslems, Normans, and many others, all of whom left their stamp on this beautiful island. Dazzling Greek temples and theaters, Roman mosaics, Byzantine basilicas, Norman castles, and baroque extravagance are only a few of the highlights we visit and study, not to mention the art museums with rare Caravaggio and Antonella da Messina paintings, among many others. After Sicily, we travel to Naples to the famous sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Naples National Museum of Archaeology, as well as Capodimonte Palace and other venues. (EDP 285163)
Patrick Hunt, Ph.D., teaches classical, Byzantine, and medieval art and archaeology in the Classics Department at Stanford. He is currently director of a Stanford Archaeology Project (Roman to medieval research) conducted in the field in Europe since 1994 and president of the Archaeological Institute of America, Stanford Society. Stellar reviews greeted his 2004 book Caravaggio, which was chosen for the National Gallery of London’s Caravaggio exhibition and short-listed for the Saroyan International Prize in 2005.
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