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Roger Kimball on the trend away from art in art history.

We uncover the mysteries and miracles of the beloved painting by the Dutch impressionist

A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2: Art in an Age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815 by Boime at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0226063364 - ISBN 13:  9780226063362 - University of Chicago Press - 1993 - Softcover

Like many great artists, Davood Roostaei’s artistic path has been a winding one. Born in 1959 in Sarab, Iran, Roostaei was introduced to the arts at a young age. His...

Compiling his Reminiscences in the final years of his life, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) recalled how the coming of America’s Civil War had moved him. Saint-Gaudens had been an aspiring artist, aged 13, and a New York cameo-cutter’s apprentice when the war’s first shots were fired; from the lathe where he learned to cut lions, dogs, and horses into amethyst and malachite, he watched the Federal army gather. ‘From my window,’ he wrote, ‘I saw virtually the entir...