Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Drawings by "the squinter," a 17th century master...
These convulsions are the natural consequence of imperial disintegration. Sooner or later, empires have always fallen apart, and the result has always been ugly. Typically, the demise of the Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century triggered the 30 Years...
...BOTTOM LINE: These superb, spontaneous works show a 17th century master at his best...
...beautiful show of Guercino drawings on loan from the Royal Collection in Windsor Castle that opened this month at the Drawing Center in New York City reminds you, moreover, how labile reputation can be. Guercino was one of those 17th century Italian artists who sank under the weight of an earlier age's revival. Critics and collectors at the end of the 19th century were so obsessed with the study and acquisition of Renaissance art that they had little time for the seicento; for them, Italian genius lay in "primitive" gold-ground altarpieces and 15th and 16th century frescoes. Consequently...
...East Asian Studies/Visual and EnvironmentalStudies concentrator became interested in thetopic when he began translating a book written bya 17th century Chinese scholar about beautifulgardens. Gardens at the time were a means ofescaping from the political conflict caused by thechanging of dynasties...