All posts tagged "Renaissance"
Art
Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 17, 2025In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
Italy
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
September 3, 2025More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
Art
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 30, 2025Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
Art & Design
Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum
August 9, 2025The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and...
Art
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
July 17, 2025In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
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
June 26, 2025Born 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
June 15, 2025Saramago’s ability to wring delightful dialogue out of his characters will charm just about anybody. The...
Art & Design
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
May 23, 2025The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
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