All posts tagged "Renaissance"
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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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Art
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
March 16, 2022To 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
February 4, 2022Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
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Biography
An Interview With Biographer James Connor
October 6, 2021"This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence....
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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
Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
August 23, 2021In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
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After Image
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
July 13, 2021More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
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