All posts tagged "Renaissance"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
April 23, 2025Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
Art & Design
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
April 15, 2025Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Science
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
March 23, 20252009 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
March 22, 2025No 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
March 18, 2025Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
Art & Design
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
December 23, 2024The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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Art & Design
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
November 9, 2024To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
October 13, 2024Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Biographer James Connor
July 24, 2024"This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence....
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Art & Design
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
June 30, 2024But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...
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