All posts tagged "seventeenth century"
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Art
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
September 26, 2022Yet 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
September 10, 2022Saint 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
August 18, 2022In 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
July 23, 20222009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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Great Britain
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
July 18, 2022Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
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History
Curses on You, White Men!
July 2, 2022The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
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History
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
June 3, 2022The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
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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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