In early modern Europe, melted sugar became its own dizzyingly complex artistic medium. By Dr. Darra Goldstein / 09.22.2015 Wilcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita Williams College White House chef Bill Yosses’s cast sugar plate with hand-pulled sugar flowers and petits fours created for French president François Hollande in 2014. Photo[…]
Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Jacques-Louis David, 1804. Oil on canvas, 23 2/4 x 19 1/2 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 97.PA.36 By Lindsey Ward / 08.30.2010 Jacques-Louis David was as political an artist as ever lived. He was a leader of the French Revolution, a prominent member of the radical Jacobin party, and a close[…]
A reconstructed Viking ship. Caitlin Mills By Dr. Tom Clark / 03.25.2018 Associate Professor, First Year College Victoria University The Vikings are in Melbourne. It is hard to see anything “Vikings” without thoughts of the seafaring thugs who invaded or raided much of coastal Europe and beyond. As Viking scholar Judith Jesch has reminded us, that is essential[…]
Initial P: The Marriage of Gillion and His First Wife, Marie; Initial A: Gillion and Marie Embrace in a Window; Initial Q: Gillion Kneeling Before an Altar; Initial A: Gillion Taking Leave of His Wife in Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies, after 1464, Lieven van Lathem. Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment, 14 9/16 x 10 1/16 in. The[…]
Passion, Lament, Glory at Melbourne’s St. Paul’s Cathedral in 2017. Sarah Walker By Dr. Paul Megna / 04.12.2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions University of Western Australia In 1985 Filipino carpenter Ruben Enaje fell three storeys and remarkably, survived. To give thanks for this good fortune, he has, for the past[…]
By Dr. Mark D. Smith / 03.25.2018 Professor of History The College of Idaho Pontius Pilate, and the infamous trial he presided over, have become the stuff not only of legend, but of historical reconstructions and speculations ranging from the ingenious to the absurd, but for the most part, they have been confused. Was Pilate[…]