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The painter Henry Fuseli traded in the unconscious, the weird, and the fantastical. A forceful, aggressive artist, for whom darkness was always a more congenial medium than light, ..
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A 'comprehensive' exhibition devoted to Surrealism at the Centre Pompidou deprives the movement of its most essential characteristic: its willingness to confront the world of dream..
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Guercino's ascent from peasant boy to Italian Baroque master unveils a genius with both brush and business...
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The late Albanian writer Ismail Kadare maintained a delicate balance between collaboration and dissent under Enver Hoxha's brutal Communist dictatorship. His openness to both innoc..
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If we want to understand the ‘meaning’ of The Prince, we should start with Machiavelli himself...
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The Musée d’Orsay’s latest exhibition marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism’s birth. It challenges us to rethink the way we see the movement – and exposes us to an altogethe..
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The great French historian, who died in November, left a formidable legacy and reshaped the study of history...
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The Museo e Bosco Reale di Capodimonte – Naples’ foremost museum of art – has decided to lend an unprecedented number of its artworks to the Louvre. But this glittering display of ..
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According to the great Florentine master of statecraft, when it comes to keeping control of your soldiers of fortune, cruelty works...
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The style of the Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini became that of the city, whose cosmopolitanism during its ‘imperial age’ inspired his breadth of vision...
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Liberty was central to the idea of Venice, but was remarkably fragile. The republic had to guard it fiercely and expound it as a tangible way of living for flawed human beings...
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Calvino’s restlessness filled him with an insatiable curiosity...
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De Roberto's familial saga lyrically charts the decline of the Sicilian aristocracy during the Unification of Italy...
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For many, the advent of printing was nothing short of miraculous but for others it symbolised a scandalous cheapening of knowledge. ..
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Whether an inspiring portrayal of inebriation’s ‘divine madness,’ a study of alcoholic dissipation, or a controversial depiction of same-sex desire, the sculptor’s statue has divid..
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At a time of moral and political crisis, the medieval poet pioneered a daring and emotive vernacular style which inspired generations of Italian literature...
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Why did Joe Biden's quotation of St. Augustine on society and love strike such a chord?..
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Niccolo Machiavelli, Renaissance statesman and political theorist, saw factional politics as essential to the prosperity of the Roman Empire and his native Florence. Are today's pa..