The annual Templeton Colloquium in Art History at UC Davis will explore how art made during the Enlightenment doesn’t always fit neatly into commonly held ideas about the period. Titled “Art and the ...
Though it focuses on the eighteenth century, there could hardly be a timelier exhibit than Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment, which opened at UNC’s Ackland Art Museum last week and remains ...
The annual Templeton Colloquium in Art History at UC Davis will explore how art made during the Enlightenment doesn’t always fit neatly into commonly held ideas about the period. Titled “Art and the ...
This subtly radical artist put rarely seen smiles on the faces of his princesses and aristocrats, creating a lace-framed snapshot of the Enlightenment era Some artists express their age so perfectly ...
Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, “Muscles of the Back,” Plate 14 (detail) from “Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle” (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size) by ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: This week, the arts. They're changing all the time, but do they get better? Do they ...
Just over two hundred years ago, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote an essay entitled 'Was ist Aufklärung?' ('What is Enlightenment?'). For Kant, Enlightenment was mankind's final coming of ...
There's something extra special about an artist who can look at something old and discarded and transform it into a work of art. Even better when that art becomes something functional too. Shoichi ...