![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)
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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
![photo of book cover, Tiny Treasures](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-08/TinyTreasures_Cover_4x3.jpg?itok=3IDhVqPw)
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…
Through its fellowship program, the CNA nurtures future generations of scholars and specialists in Netherlandish Art. The 2022–23 fellows have written…
![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