All posts tagged "Renaissance"
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Art
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
November 15, 2022In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
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Biography
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
October 25, 2022Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
October 15, 2022Saramago’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
September 21, 2022The 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
August 23, 2022Before 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
August 16, 2022Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 23, 20222009 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
July 21, 2022No 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
July 18, 2022Nicolson 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 28, 2022The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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