All posts tagged "sixteenth century"
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Books
Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
October 13, 2024Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
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Italy
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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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
March 23, 2024Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
February 29, 2024Saramago’s ability to wring delightful dialogue out of his characters will charm just about anybody. The...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
February 8, 2024The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
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Architecture
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
January 5, 2024Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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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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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
November 29, 2023Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
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Fiction Reviews
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
November 26, 2023If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....
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History
Four Shipwrecked Castaways Cross Sixteenth Century America
November 14, 2023"But at that point most of the expeditionaries perished as a result of Indian attacks, illness,...
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