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Yugoslavia's Complicated Modernism
The 20th-century architecture of Yugoslavia was the result of a concerted national effort to modernize and unify.
Natasha Seaman
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Looking for Leonardo in Verrocchio's Studio
Leonardo’s hand is fleshed out in this exhibition, but so is that of Lorenzo di Credi, Jacopo del Sellaio, and other workshop assistants to whom no name can be attached.
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Searching for Redemption in Post-WWII German Art
While Inventur proposes that we seek to understand and empathize with these artists, their biographies constantly nag at the moral centers of the brain.
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The High Life of Vermeer and his Contemporaries
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting reinserts Vermeer into the tradition in which he worked, both demystifying his paintings and lending force to his particular take on the genre.
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Diversity and Fraternity in 19th-Century French Prints
The Société des Aquafortistes encouraged not only the printmaking arts, but also a sense of camaraderie among its artists.
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The Heavy Metal Symbolism of the Salon Rose+Croix
A show of Symbolist paintings at the Guggenheim makes it clear that 19th-century France had an infinitely more interesting fin-de-siècle flip-out than we did in the 20th.
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A World Unto Himself: The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers
Even in Segers’ early work, there is a sense of perversity, not with the Modernist goal to épater la bourgeoisie, but in a kind of damn-it-all, Mr. Toad behind-the-wheel sort of way, boop-booping and careering down the road for the sheer pleasure of it.
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The Sweet Life: Carlo Dolci at the Davis Museum, Wellesley
Dolci (1616-1686), like Michelangelo and Botticelli 150 years before him, worked in Florence in the employ of the Medici family.
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“Art” at the Science Museum: 'Da Vinci — The Genius' in Boston
In this age of fake news and climate change denial, we should be seeking to educate the public on scientific method rather than promulgating faulty science in the name of infotainment.
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The Life Emphatic with Valentin de Boulogne
While the name “Caravaggio” inevitably rides along in the title of the show, it is there to assert that we are moving “beyond.”
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Beyond Gorgeous: Illuminated Manuscripts from Boston Collections
For viewers accustomed to looking at paintings on canvas and panel, manuscripts are a different beast.
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Rodin in Process at the Peabody Essex Museum
Speaking very generally and just of figurative art: sculpture creates a world around itself, and painting creates a world inside itself.