All posts tagged "seventeenth century"
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Blog-Theater
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
April 29, 2022It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...
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After Image
A Distant Mirror: Fashion and Identity in Colonial Latin America
April 9, 2022The scene depicted is officially entitled Garden Party on the Terrace of a Country Home, but...
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Biography
An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
October 6, 2021"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...
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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: 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
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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Art
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
July 24, 2020Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
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After Image
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700
July 8, 2020Saint Serapion (1628) by Francisco de Zurbarán A new show at the National Gallery of Art...
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History
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
June 19, 2020In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
May 29, 20202009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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