Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
The Irish painter John Lavery's rich and varied career took him from rural idylls to the horrors of war, all captured with the deftest and lightest of touches.
The history of the Proms, the world's largest classical music festival, has been shaped profoundly by conflict, both past and present.
Children’s books draw on the energy of the oldest kind of narratives, of myths and fairytales.
A new study points towards the persistence of human interest in cultivating sound.
One Japanese family’s mastery of the woodblock print captured generations of history in simple yet evocative masterpieces.
A dazzling biography of the Polish princess Izabela Czartoryska traces her life alongside the long struggle for Polish freedom.
Guercino's ascent from peasant boy to Italian Baroque master unveils a genius with both brush and business.
Historians of the British Empire are engaged in an often ill-tempered war of words that reveals more about the certainties of contemporary moral mores than it does about the past i..
The forms, perceptions and uses of money over time convey a compelling narrative about wealth, morality, and cultural identity through the ages.
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