The rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 1738 challenged European assumptions
about ancient life; just as influential, if subtler in its effect, was the modern translation of …

The rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century challenged
European assumptions about ancient life; just as influential, if quieter, was the revolution …

The wash drawings and oil paintings of subjects from Greek tragedy by Anglo-Swiss painter
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), routinely categorized as romantic classicism, might be better …

Most art historians divide the art of the later 18th and early 19th centuries into two major
groups: Neo-Classicism and Romanticism. It seems established that identification of these …

By the late eighteenth century and in the nineteenth century the opera played a preeminent
role in the cultural life of Europe. The opera was enjoyed and understood by a broad cross …

This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century
Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and …

Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe. 1 When we open up a systematic perspective on these
occasional essays, however, it is clear that Foucault was engaged in an effort to define a …

Aufklärung (The Dialectic of Enlightenment), first published in North America in the dark
days of 1944. They saw the world as increasingly irrational, and sought to activate every …

Flandrin-the most important religious artist in France during his lifetime-began a mural in
1848 whose iconography is without precedent in Christian art, represents a unique …

That descriptive pictures urge us to look at them, and to become involved with them, is amply
demonstrated by the essays in this issue through their exploration of how material forms and …