All posts tagged "seventeenth century"
Art
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
September 18, 2026Yet 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
September 4, 2026Saint 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
August 12, 2026In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
Art & Design
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 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
July 12, 2026Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Curses on You, White Men!
June 26, 2026The 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
May 25, 2026The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
Blog-Theater
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
April 25, 2026It 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
April 5, 2026The 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”
November 28, 2025"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...
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