For the Greeks, museums were sacred places dedicated to the muses. How is it that the Catholic Church got into the pagan shrine business?
Louis A. Ruprecht
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is William M. Suttles Chair of Religious Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of seven books, most recently: JJ Winckelmann andd the Vatican’s First Profane Museum (Palgrave, 2011).
