All posts tagged "Renaissance"
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
August 11, 2020Saramago’s ability to wring delightful dialogue out of his characters will charm just about anybody. The...
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Art
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
July 19, 2020The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
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Art
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
June 23, 2020Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
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Architecture
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
June 18, 2020Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
May 29, 20202009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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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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Great Britain
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
May 25, 2020Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
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Art
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
April 19, 2020The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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Art
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
April 18, 2020To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
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Art
Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
April 18, 2020Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
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