![An oval painting on parchment, framed by silver, of the artist Sofonisba Anguissola holding a large shield.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-07/SC81958_4x3_Crop_V2.jpg?itok=_Msp9HBj)
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![An oval painting on parchment, framed by silver, of the artist Sofonisba Anguissola holding a large shield.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-07/SC81958_4x3_Crop_V2.jpg?itok=_Msp9HBj)
Dive into the hidden and unearthed stories featured in the exhibition “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy.” Together with curators, professors from…
![A portrait of Madame Ramón Subercaseaux wearing a white gown and red flower in her hair while seated at a piano.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-07/SC457620_4x3.jpg?itok=R5xTuk8w)
Celebrate the exhibition “Fashioned by Sargent” by exploring the many multifaceted ways John Singer Sargent and the subjects of his portraits created…
![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
![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
![Irregularly shaped sculpture made of fragments of celadon joined together with epoxy and gold](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-05/SC254451b_4x3_Extended-Background.jpg?itok=_QNqZT6b)
Last July my friend Griffin visited me in Boston. I couldn’t wait to update them on everything new and exciting in my life. First we visited the MFA…
Issue: Art for This Moment
![Film Still from The Innocent](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/Innocent.png?itok=vFwlRYxu)
Escape the cold weather with three warm and breezy fan favorites from this year’s Boston French Film Festival!
![A painting of many small houses, hearts, teapots, and suns, with a large dress in the middle and the saying "Welcome to Our Home" over the dress.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-08/E1068CR_d1_4x3.jpg?itok=OMjX-JWi)
The quilt atop my childhood bed has given warmth to me and three generations of women in my family. Its lace overlay has torn, its doily appliqué has…
Issue: Art for This Moment
![Still from House (Hausu)](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2024-01/japanese-film-house-1.jpg%20copy.jpg?itok=wHTR-vIq)
Scary movies may not leap to mind when you think of great beauty, but since the early days of cinema filmmakers have used striking cinematography to…