The field of Arts has seen many different ages, phases, and eras. Be it emotional portraits, paintings, and sculptures of mythological figures, or the trend of graffiti on walls that became a form of ...
On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in his classic study The Waning of the Middle Ages, described the transition ...