All posts tagged "seventeenth century"
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
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: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
May 28, 2025Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
Spain
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700
May 11, 2025Saint Serapion (1628) by Francisco de Zurbarán A new show at the National Gallery of Art...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
April 18, 2025In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
Art
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
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Curses on You, White Men!
March 1, 2025The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
January 26, 2025The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
Theatre
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
December 25, 2024It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...
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