The Flaying of Marsyas, Titian, 1575-76 / Image: STATE MUSEUM, KROMERIZ The late works of Titian were the subject of the big temporary show that just closed at the Accademia in Venice, where I caught ...
In 1994 there appeared one of the great cultural and intellectual histories of our time, “The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance.” Because its author, Sir John Hale, had suffered a stroke just ...
Few artists have remained so consistently in the limelight as Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian. When he died in his eighties during the 1576 plague, the great Venetian painter (who hailed, ...
The Swiss-Icelandic artist and provocateur Christoph Büchel is courting controversy again with a show at the Fondazione Prada in Venice that includes lab-grown diamonds made from previous pulverised ...
In 1994 there appeared one of the great cultural and intellectual histories of our time, “The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance.” Because its author, Sir John Hale, had suffered a stroke just ...