The Life of Thomas More
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Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of...
Holiday (1938)
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Two years before stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and director George Cukor would collaborate...
America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting: 2017
Yuriko Jackall, Philippe Bordes, Jack Hinton and Melissa Hyde
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In 1815, Joseph, elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, arrived in America, bringing with him his vast...
Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850: A History
Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon
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Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and...
Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book
Michelle P. Brown, Ildar H. Garipzanov and Benjamin C. Tilghman
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The early medieval decorated book illuminates our understanding of the processes of cultural...
Guy Bourdin: A Message for You
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With the eye of a painter, Guy Bourdin created images that contained fascinating stories,...
Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Taddei Tondo
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Michelangelo's (1475-1564) "Taddei Tondo," in the collection of the Royal Academy in London, offers...
Pretentiousness: Why it Matters
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What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a...
The Doodle Notebook: How to Waste Time in the Office
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Ever been so bored at work that your brain began to dribble out of your ears? Ever considered...
A Nursery in the Nineties
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First published in 1935, Eleanor Farjeon's "A Nursery in the Nineties" is one of the most striking...