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In celebration of the UK’s LGBT History Month, Richard Bruce Parkinson, professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, writes about French novelist and essayist Marguerite Yourcenar’s essay ‘Le cerveau noir de Piranèse (The dark brain of Piranesi)’, using this portrait of Yourcenar to illustrate.
Read ‘A personal view: Yourcenar, Piranesi and Egypt‘ by Richard Bruce Parkinson on the Taylor Institution Library weblog.