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Just two years after his inauguration, former University President Lawrence H. Summers penned a 5800 word letter to the Harvard community that left no doubt about what sort of a mark he intended to make: Harvard would build itself into an unparalleled center of interdisciplinary research, and it would do...
Just two years after his inauguration, former University President Lawrence H. Summers penned a 5800 word letter to the Harvard community that left no doubt about what sort of a mark he intended to make: Harvard would build itself into an unparalleled center of interdisciplinary research, and it would do...
Titian could do it all. He could make the conventions of Renaissance art more intimate and candid, or he could enlarge them, launching the Virgin theatrically into the heavens or planting her throne high among spectacular settings of classical arches and columns. It matters that he came of age just...
The Boston show is full of groupings that allow you to compare how all three artists handled similar subjects. At various times, each of them produced a rendition of the Supper at Emmaus, the story from the New Testament in which the risen Christ reveals himself to a pair of...
...last: Titian’s consummate composition and beauty, Veronese’s ebullient gatherings of pastel-clad figures, or Tintoretto’s brilliant challenges to the status quo.The exhibition begins at a turning point in the history of painting, with the shift from wood panels to stretched canvases as the substrate for the painted work. The contrasting pair that opens the exhibition juxtaposes a Titian canvas with an earlier Bellini panel of a similar scene, a virgin surrounded by saints. The smooth surface of the polished wood panel and the carefully hidden brushstrokes give the Bellini its placidly...