All posts tagged "seventeenth century"
Theatre
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...
After Image
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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Art
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 3, 2025But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...
Art & Design
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 30, 2025Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
Art
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
July 17, 2025In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
May 28, 2025Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
Art
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700
May 11, 2025Saint 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
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...
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