There is a well-known Greek myth that goes something like this: The gods, being characteristically devious, gave a beautiful container to Pandora, one of the first humans. They told her she could have ...

When the Panofskys describe a sixteenth-century study of Pandora opening her box by Rosso Fiorentino, an ink drawing full of the elegant exaggerations beloved by Mannerist artists, they might almost ...

Many readers are surely familiar with the story of “Pandora’s box” a Greek myth about the first woman “Pandora” who was given a sealed jar by the gods and told not to open it. Overcome by curiosity, ...