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Sunday, August 25, 2019

Summary of Cultural Relativism drivers -- after Charles King

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I have just begun reading Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air , the story of how Franz Boas, the German-born "father of American a...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Summary of the major Low-Countries Northern Renaissance art movements

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I recently embarked on multi-post effort to provide an overview of Dutch and Flemish art in the periods covered in a number of major current...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Book Review: Tony Horwitz's Spying on the South

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I heard Tony Horwitz interviewed by Mary Corrigan on NPRs Fresh Air earlier this year regarding his book Spying on the South . I was intrigu...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

The Haarlem Mannerists: Mannerism above the dividing line

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I have previously covered  the benefits that accrued to the city of Harlem as a result of the migration of businessmen and artists out of An...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

Northern Mannerism: The Flemish Experience (1560 - 1600)

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Artists from the Low Countries had been traveling to Italy since the early part of the 16th century -- Jan Gossaert was the first to make th...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Transmission of Bruegel's techniques and topics into the Dutch Republic

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The  fall of Antwerp  to the Duke of Parma in 1585 signaled the effective partition of the Low Countries into the Spanish Netherlands and th...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

The Legacy of Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Spanish Netherlands

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Merriam-Webster defines legacy as "something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past." Pieter ...