All posts tagged "Renaissance"
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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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Art
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 9, 2021Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
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Art
Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum
September 30, 2020The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and...
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Art
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
September 9, 2020In 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
August 20, 2020Born 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
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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