All posts tagged "art history"
Art & Design
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
December 19, 2025The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
Art & Design
Art for a New Gilded Age
November 26, 2025Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
Art
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
March 29, 2025Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
Art
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
March 22, 2025No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
History
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
March 20, 2025Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
March 14, 2025A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Art
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
February 23, 2025‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
February 22, 2025It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
January 29, 2025For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...
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