All posts tagged "Renaissance"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
October 20, 2026Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
October 9, 2026Saramago’s ability to wring delightful dialogue out of his characters will charm just about anybody. The...
Art
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 15, 2026The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
August 16, 2026Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
Art
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Art & Design
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
July 15, 2026No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
July 12, 2026Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
Art
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
April 23, 2026The 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 14, 2026To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
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