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  • Europe and the Islamic world, 1600 – 1800

    • September 14, 2019
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    The ever excellent Met Museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History has pulled together a set of materials that give a fascinating insight into some of the cultural interactions between Islam and Christendom during the age of reason – here.   ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. 27 long form articles
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  • ‘Casanova, Art, and Eroticism’

    • March 30, 2019
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    “In all its splendor and misery, love dominates the life of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798). As the hero of the memoirs he started writing in 1789, when he was sixty-four and living in exile in Bohemia, Casanova performs as ardent lover, callous libertine, amiable friend, and suitor wronged. His amorous adventures begin at the tender age
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  • Art in eighteenth-century Venice

    • July 18, 2018
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      The Met museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a great resource for anyone interested in Venetian art in the eighteenth century.  A central essay containing links allows you to explore a wide range of painters, themes and historical contexts – here. ‘The Prologue’, and chapters 1 to 8 of ‘Casanova in Paris: The
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