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Luminous Art
Hanukkah Menorahs of The Jewish Museum
A magnificent array of Hanukkah menorahs and lamps that shed light on the Jewish traditions that produced them The ceremonial kindling of lights each night during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah...
Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory
A long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon’s singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist...
Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi
Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print
In early sixteenth-century Italy, works of art came to be understood as unique objects made by individuals of genius, giving rise to a new sense of the artist as the author of his images. At the same time, the practice of...
Words for Pictures
Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism
The Italian Renaissance was a creative period for art criticism as well as for art itself. The early efforts to give verbal accounts of visual representations and their quality throw light not only on the art of the period...
Affairs of Honor
National Politics in the New Republic
A major reassessment of American political culture in the days of Jefferson, Hamilton, and Burr "[A] landmark study of Hamilton and the founders."—Jeff Sharlet, Chronicle of Higher Education...
The Voyage of the Icebergs
Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece
Twelve days after the onset of the American Civil War in April of 1861, Frederic Edwin Church, the most successful American landscape painter of his day, debuted his latest “Great Picture”—a painting titled The North....