With ‘Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance,’ Joseph Luzzi has written a fascinating narrative that tells the story of the drawings and seeks to revise our understanding of the phenomenon traditionally known as the Renaissance.
Robert E. Hosmer Jr.
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What Muriel Spark’s novels can teach us about life
‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ brought an unforgettable, iconic character to the literary stage.
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Was the English Reformation inevitable?
As a movement directed at unity and uniformity (Henry’s vision), the English Reformation was a high-stakes failure.
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Critic, curator, broadcaster and scoundrel: the man behind the epic documentary “Civilisation”
Robert Hosmer reviews “Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilization” by James Stourton.
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A Radiance Fills Them’
It may well be a curse rather than a blessing to be described as a religious or spiritual poet todaynot simply because in a secular or post-secular age such labels are anathema but because such designations may raise expectations of simple-minded pious jingles that are a far cry from the real thi
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Old Man, Long Night
Derek Walcott published his first book of verse Twenty Five Poems at the age of 18 then went on to a career that has produced 20 books of poetry as well as several dozen plays and a dozen works of non-fiction Now we have The Prodigal an epic from this postcolonial nomad who has drifted among Eu
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Pondering the Human Condition
Czeslaw Milosz rsquo s last collection of poems is a thoroughly typical series of lyric exercises deepening and enriching the concerns that preoccupied him during his long career as a poet The 32 poems in Second Space dwell on the mysteries of the human predicament and the movement of history towa