All posts tagged "art history"
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Art
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
June 2, 2020Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
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Art
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
May 27, 2020No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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Art
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
May 27, 2020Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
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Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
May 22, 2020A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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Art
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
May 10, 2020A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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Art
30,000 Years of Art
May 10, 2020‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
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Art
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
May 9, 2020It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
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Art
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
April 28, 2020For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...
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Art
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
April 16, 2020The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
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Art
Art for a New Gilded Age
December 23, 2019Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
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