Great art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performance and what they called the transitions ...
The editors welcome contributions in all areas of the "long-eighteenth-century" culture outside North America-art, cultural studies, history, literature, music, science, and so on. To speed the ...
Last fall, for her show at Gagosian Beverly Hills, she copied 18th-century likenesses of notable ... to our present ways of seeing. Salon Art + Design: More than 50 galleries tease the lines ...
This stunning Parisian museum may not be as famous as the Louvre, but it's brimming with history. Visit for an authentic ...
As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...
When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...
"One cannot but welcome the publication of Art and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Portugal by Angela Delaforce. The book is neither a general history of Portuguese art nor, in view of its depth and ...
In October 2023, several dedicated auctions were held in New York to sell mostly pieces acquired by Baron James Mayer de ...
Curator and art historian Danielle Thom of the Victoria and Albert Museum looks at the relationship between classical sculpture and bawdy prints in 18th-century London. Show more The 18th century ...
By Milena Lazazzera More than 100 porcelain perfume bottles from the 18th century are being offered ... an early 20th-century art collector and philanthropist. Mr. Giordano said the aesthetics ...