All posts tagged "seventeenth century"
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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...
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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...
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Art & Design
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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Art
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
March 27, 2024In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
February 12, 2024Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
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Art
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700
January 28, 2024Saint 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
January 7, 2024In 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
December 14, 20232009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
December 8, 2023Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
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