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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

“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…

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…

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…

On view October 8, 2023–January 15, 2024 BOSTON (August 9, 2023)—John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) brought his sitters to life, but he did much more…

On view September 9, 2023–January 7, 2024 BOSTON (August 9, 2023)—The history of the Italian Renaissance has long been told through the…

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

“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

BOSTON (June 5, 2023)—About 2,500 years ago, the Acropolis of Athens was filled with statues of young women, called korai. Raised on high bases, these…