Is less more? Or is too much never enough?
Culture and Travel: A visit to the lush Rococo Hall of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library
The library built in the central German city of Weimar in the latter decades of the eighteenth century by Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, is one of the world’s cultural treasures.
Revealing portraits
On view at the National Gallery of Art, Fragonard’s tetes de fantaisie evince some of the earliest stirrings of modernism.
The Victoria and Albert’s new look at “Europe 1600–1815”
By Joan DeJean Neptune and Triton by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, c. 1622– 1623, as installed in the newly reopened Europe 1600–1815 galleries at the V&A. Except as noted, all images © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In December 2015 the Victoria and Albert Museum’s European galleries were opened to the public for the first time in nearly …
A divine passion
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was the most sought-after portraitist of the ancien régime.
Léonard Boudin at the Flagler Museum
Unboxing the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum’s 50th birthday present