On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6-3 in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. That judgment overturned two previous cases that had come before the Court, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey….
Black Robes in a Marble Palace: A Look at the Supreme Court of the United States
Graceful Villa Melzi on Lake Como, Italy
July 3, 2022
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Villa Melzi d’Eril is elegantly placed on the waterfront of Lake Como amid a rare garden, just 31 miles from Milan in Lombardy, Northern Italy. In the early 19th century, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, vice president of the Italian Republic founded by Napoleon, envisaged the villa as a summer retreat. It is accompanied by a family…
Leonardo da Vinci and the Infernal Masterpiece: ‘The Battle of Anghiari’
Assiduously copied, zealously photographed, and widely circulated, images of Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper” have pervaded Western society and beyond. The latter, though deteriorating in a Milanese convent since the late 15th century, has never ceased to draw crowds. The former is worshipped by every visitor to the Louvre, in Paris, where it…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for July 1–7
This week we feature a collection of great mysteries, alongside a discussion of why civilizations fall and a thrilling tale of a boy surviving in the wild. Fiction An Analogous Thriller ‘River Rising’ By Athol Dickson Pilotville, Louisiana, becomes a place of miracles when a stranger visits. But the stranger who performs miracles is searching…
Meeting Tommaso
Years ago, I was one of those people you’d see rushing past the rows of old master portraits in a museum or art gallery on my way to see a more exciting genre such as history painting. I admired the portrait artists’ skills yet, frankly, I found little joy in viewing important people long-dead and often…
Brazil’s Architecture Merges Traditional European and Indigenous Styles
June 29, 2022
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With its simple white façade, the Brazilian church of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Blacks in the historic town of Ouro Preto looks like any church. But once inside the church, decorated in a lavish Baroque style, one journeys to a glorious past. Bright colors, gold, and detailed ornamentation are only a few…
The Picture of American Independence
“The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society.” —George Washington, in a letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, Jan. 9, 1790 We’re living in the Great Experiment. Established less than 250 years ago, the United States is founded on the revolutionary conviction that…
Why I Don’t Watch TV News
June 27, 2022
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Commentary If you have any sense of history (and that commodity is becoming rarer as fantasy takes its place), you’ll know how difficult it was for most human generations to acquire knowledge. For millennia personal observation and hearsay were all we had. Then writing was invented, but books were staggeringly expensive until printing came along,…
Life Lessons From the Ancient World’s Greatest Artist (Whom You’ve Probably Never Heard of)
Comb through any of the latest art history or humanities textbooks, and you’re likely to find little if any mention of his name. Not even once does he appear in McGraw Hill’s “The Humanities Through the Arts”—now in its 10th edition. “Picasso,” meanwhile, registers a whopping 34 entries in the index. Yet Phidias (also spelled…
The ‘Four Gentlemen’ and Their Poetic Inscriptions
Nature serves as our greatest artistic muse. It stirs feelings and emotions in us and was a source of inspiration for ancient Chinese artists. Four plants, in particular, the plum blossom, the orchid, the bamboo, and the chrysanthemum, were known as the Four Gentlemen, or “Junzi” in ancient China. “Ink Plum” by Wang Mian. Handscroll:…
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