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Picasso: The View from Florence
Collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MadridPablo Picasso: The Painter and the Model, 1963 A show on Pablo Picasso may seem an odd occurrence in Florence, but the exhibition...
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Bernini: He Had the Touch
Embassy of Spain, Rome/Carolina MarconiGian Lorenzo Bernini: Anima dannata (Damned Soul), circa 1619 In 1619, at the ripe age of twenty, Gian Lorenzo Bernini set himself the seemingly impossible...
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In the June 25 issue of the New York Review, Ingrid D. Rowland writes: Renzo Piano’s new home for the Whitney Museum of American Art is a colossal achievement: four thousand tons of steel anchoring...
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From Aeschylus to the EU
ragusah24.itMoni Ovadia’s production of Aeschylus’s The Suppliants in Syracuse, Sicily, June, 2015 In this summer of shipwrecked refugees and the Greek debt crisis, what could possibly shake...
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The Frank Gehry Story
Pascal Saez/VWPics/ReduxThe Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by architect Frank Gehry. At left are the Nervión River and La Salve Bridge, adorned with Daniel Buren’s artwork Red Arches...
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Wonders in the Met’s New Box
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Naumann, New YorkAnton Raphael Mengs: Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, Duquesa de Huescar, 1775 Of all New York’s museums, only the Metropolitan Museum of Art,...
View ArticleAndrea del Sarto
In the December 17 issue of The New York Review, Ingrid Rowland writes, “One leaf from Giorgio Vasari’s vanished collection, a pensive Study for the Head of Saint Joseph, is now on display at the Frick...
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The Mystery of Hieronymus Bosch
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, RotterdamHieronymus Bosch: The Wayfarer, circa 1500–1510 There has never been a painter quite like Jheronimus van Aken, the Flemish master who signed his works as...
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Breakfast in the Ruins
Louis Vignes/J. Paul Getty TrustValley of the Tombs, Palmyra In September 2015, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles acquired the first photographs ever taken of Palmyra, the great trading oasis...
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An Island in a Cold Sea
Giorgio Cosulich/Getty ImagesMigrants who have arrived by boat from North Africa at the port in Lampedusa, March, 2011 As Donald Trump denies entry to the already small number of pre-screened refugees...
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Remembering Bob Silvers
Dominique Nabokov Robert Silvers in his office, New York City, early 1980s; photograph by Dominique Nabokov Following are reminiscences of Robert B. Silvers by some of the Review’s writers; more will...
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The Long Reach of Rome
Galleria di Carracci, Palazzo Farnese, Rome/Bridgeman Images‘Jupiter and Juno’; a detail from Annibale Carracci’s ceiling at the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 1597–1604 In 2010, archaeologists exploring a...
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Robert B. Silvers (1929–2017)
Dominique NabokovRobert B. Silvers in his office at The New York Review of Books, early 1980s Bob Silvers, my friend and the editor of The New York Review, died on March 20, shortly after completing...
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The Virtuoso of Compassion
Pio Monte della Misericordia, NaplesCaravaggio: The Seven Acts of Mercy, 1607 Two museums, London’s National Gallery and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, mounted exhibitions in the fall of 2016...
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Martin Luther’s Burning Questions
Klassik Stiftung Weimar‘Martin Luther as Junker Jörg,’ the name under which he went into hiding in 1521; woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1521–1522 On All Hallow’s Eve of 1517, Martin Luther,...
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Facing Off with the Old Masters
Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo, Carmignano; Kira Perov/Bill Viola Studio/Performers: Angela Black, Suzanne Peters, Bonnie SnyderJacopo Carucci Pontormo: Visitation, circa 1528–1529; a still from Bill...
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Roman Rivalries
Museo Civico, ViterboSebastiano del Piombo: Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Pietà), circa 1512–1516 In theory, they were the perfect combination: a Florentine sculptor and a Venetian painter, a...
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Norwegian Woods
Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm/Tord Lund/©2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkEdvard Munch: Sick Mood at Sunset: Despair, 1892 In a career that spanned more than six decades, the Norwegian artist...
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Roman Holidays
Metropolitan Museum of ArtGiovanni Alto showing off the sights of Rome; engraving by Francesco Villamena, 1613 For several decades in the early seventeenth century, German-speaking visitors to Rome...
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‘A Painter Not Human’
Galleria Regionale della Sicilia di Palazzo Abatellis, PalermoAntonello da Messina: Annunciate Madonna, 17 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches, 1475–1476 In October 1608, the fractious painter Michelangelo Merisi da...
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