All posts tagged "seventeenth century"
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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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Great Britain
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
May 25, 2020Nicolson 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!
May 14, 2020The 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
April 27, 2020The 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 19, 2020It 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 19, 2020The 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”
December 27, 2019"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
March 6, 2012But 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
August 8, 2011Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
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