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...Le Brun to a late nineteenth-century painting by Van Gogh. Likewise, there is no point applying the criteria one would bring to the Van Gogh to a contemporary installation by Louise Bourgeois. So in a world where Tracey Emin is an artist (a fully accredited member of the Royal Academy), in what sense are the makers of Nebamun’s tomb-chapel ‘artists’?...Week 5 The...

...Le Devin du village – The Village Soothsayer) he highlighted the virtues of simple people in communion with nature and their own hearts. If the interest in nature expressed by most Enlightenment thinkers was less intense than Rousseau's, it is nevertheless true that all of them used the word ‘nature’ in a polemical sense, to highlight by contrasting with nature...

...les regretz and Tous nobles cuers), set here by La Rue, were written to console the young Margaret following her dismissal from the French court in 1493 – she had been resident there since 1483 during her betrothal to Charles VIII of France, but he renounced the engagement and instead married Anne, Duchess of Brittany. The theme of regret reappears throughout the...

...le Grand; https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin1.jpg Figure 5: Eddie Gerald; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 6: Pascal Mannaerts; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 7: NADER DAOUD, STR; Associated Press; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 8: Handout; Getty Images Figure 9: Abaca Press; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 10: Kumar Sriskandan; Alamy Stock Photo Figure 11:...

...articulating the intentional structure to the life of Caravaggio, does this place any limits on the interpretations of his work? Discussion It seems that the intentional structure of an artist's life coherently presented in the art historical biography would limit the interpretation of the work. Insofar as Helen Langdon's Caravaggio is an interpretation of his life (what...