All posts tagged "Renaissance"
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Art & Design
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
July 28, 2023To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
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Books
Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
June 26, 2023Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
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Religion
An Interview With Biographer James Connor
April 1, 2023"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
March 9, 2023But 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
February 18, 2023In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
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History
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
December 30, 2022More 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
December 26, 2022Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum
December 7, 2022The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and...