All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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Art
John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
September 21, 2021Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
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Books
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
September 14, 2021Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....
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Art
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
September 11, 2021But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...
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Art
Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
September 10, 2021It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...
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Biography
Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
August 11, 2021Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
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After Image
Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited
August 7, 2021Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by...
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Biography
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
August 5, 2021The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
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Art
Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
July 28, 2021Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
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Art
Beauty & Bounty: American Art in the Age of Exploration, Seattle Art Museum
October 17, 2020The highlight of the gallery would have to be the three paintings by lesser-known artist Martin...
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African American
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
October 6, 2020The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
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