The Apotheosis of Homer

~FROM the mid eighteenth century on, Historicism pervaded architecture as thoroughly as it had the other arts. In fact, this new viewpoint has usually been pointed out more clearly in histories of architectureFor English-speaking readers the term has become familiar...

~~After playing a role in visualizing the French Revolution, color was subject to its own upheaval in the nineteenth century, first in materials, then in making. By the time of the Industrial Revolution, chemistry had replaced alchemy. Building on the classification of the elements and using modern experimental scientific methods,...

THIS chapter centers on a foundational image of avant-garde group identity. The painting is large and full of figures, an ambitious submission to the Paris Salon of 1865. The setting is strange: there are indications of an artist’s studio or some other austere bourgeois...

~Part one is a tale of two exhibitions, one monograph, and one novel. The first of the two...