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Giorgione's Ambiguity by Tom Nichols
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or "big George" died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than twenty-five works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as The Three Philosophers and The Tempest r ...Show more
Renaissance Art: A Beginner's Guide by Tom Nichols
Category: Art and Design | Series: Beginner's Guides
The fifteenth century saw the evolution of a distinct and powerfully influential European artistic culture. But what does the familiar phrase Renaissance Art actually refer to? Through engaging discussion of timeless works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, and support ...Show more
Renaissance Art in Venice: From Tradition to Individualism by Tom Nichols
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Art
Art and architecture have always been central to Venice but in the Renaissance period, between c.1440 and 1600, they reached a kind of apotheosis when many of the city's new buildings, sculpture and paintings took on distinctive and original qualities. The spread of Renaissance values provided leading a ...Show more
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Tom Nichols
Category: Politics
People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any ...Show more
The Death of Expertise : The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
Category: Languages and Reference
Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows ...Show more
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