All posts tagged "seventeenth century"
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 & Design
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
March 23, 20252009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
History
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...
Art
A Distant Mirror: Fashion and Identity in Colonial Latin America
December 2, 2024The scene depicted is officially entitled Garden Party on the Terrace of a Country Home, but...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
July 25, 2024"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
June 30, 2024But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...
Art
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 5, 2024Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
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