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![An in-gallery photo of Edgar Degas' Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-07/SC6543_4x3.jpg?itok=HTBHYR2I)
At four years old I saw my first ballet, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker , and I immediately fell in love with dance. By age six I was taking my first…
Issue: Art for This Moment
![Image of Fashioned by Sargent book cover](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-08/FashionedbySargent_Cover_4x3_1.jpg?itok=NGGvZ6Tc)
Fashioned by Sargent
“The coat is the picture,” John Singer Sargent explained to his fellow artist Graham Robertson in the summer of 1894, tugging a heavy garment ever…
![Book cover, Dutch Art in a Global Age](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-08/Dutch%20Art%20in%20a%20Global%20Age_cover_web.jpg?itok=h41K_vyA)
Dutch Art in a Global Age
The seventeenth century has long been considered a “golden age” for Dutch art, fueled by the Dutch Republic’s growth as an economic world power…
![Book cover, Strong Women in Renaissance Italy](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-08/StrongWomeninRenaissanceItaly_cover_web_4x3.jpg?itok=Y5AFb_AR)
Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
The story of the Renaissance in Italy is often told through the work of great male artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo. But…
![A terracotta relief of six angels playing various instruments.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-05/SC446017_4x3_V1.jpg?itok=TWH5oM4I)
How do you start writing a paper, an e-mail, or a letter? Often our first thoughts are not the final product we want other others to read. Instead we…
Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows
![A painting of five grandiosely-dressed people playing instruments near a body of water.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-05/SC423889_4x3.jpg?itok=AG3LRhvW)
“We weep with the weeping, laugh with the laughing, and grieve with the grieving. These movements of the soul are made known by movements of the body…
Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows
![Portrait of a man wearing a turban and a sheathed sword](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2021-10/SC248847_4x3.jpg?itok=JwfeMzf1)
Africa, Infrastructure, and Empire in Rubens’s Portrait of Mulay Ahmad
Painted around 1609, Peter Paul Rubens’s portrait of Mulay Ahmad depicts an African man from the waist up, standing before a city and a massive…
Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows
![Artist Toshiko Takaezu sits among her works of pottery and looks out the window.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC459050_16x9.jpg?itok=zaTT1qXH)
Born in Hawaii to parents of Okinawan ancestry, Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was a technically masterful and innovative artist best known for her…
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Tiny Treasures
The Magic of Miniatures
Intricate and appealing, curious and uncanny, miniature works of art exert surprising power. Over thousands of years and across cultures, artists and…
![Black contour line drawings of abstract shapes resembling fruit, branches, and leaves against a white background.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC315332_SC315331_SC315351_16x9.jpg?itok=UHuukYle)
“Since birth we get accustomed to seeing and thinking at the same time. But I think that if you can turn off the mind and look at things only with…