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Jun 21, 2024 · Simon Schama's Power of Art masterfully weaves historical context with enthralling storytelling to demonstrate how great works of art can shift perspectives and shape societies.
Jun 29, 2024 · As voters prepare to head to the polls, the historian reflects on campaigns through the centuries and their depiction in great art. ‘The Polling’ from William Hogarth’s ‘The Humours of an ...
3 days ago · Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ( / ˈrɛmbrænt, ˈrɛmbrɑːnt /, [2] Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə (n)ˌsoːɱ vɑn ˈrɛin] ⓘ; 15 July 1606 [1] – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Simon Schama talks about the poet and artist William Blake.
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Jul 4, 2024 · Rather Schama offers a strange hybrid of history, biography and art history yoked together into an apparently seamless though jerky and incomplete n arrative. The whole unwieldy structure is sustained by three main procedures each of which seems to me highly dubious.
Jul 4, 2024 · As Beard emphasizes the power of the context in which we look at and interpret art, she ultimately suggests that civilization itself is a leap of faith. Beard is having fun in this joyfully accessible primer, backed with a robust appendix, for all interested in a new perspective on religion, art, and history.'
Jul 7, 2024 · In Simon Schama’s A History of Britain (16 episodes, BBC 2000-2001) the viewer experiences a rich diversity of the passage of human time in the British islands.
