Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...
The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...
One of the best stories told in any New York museum exhibition this season unfolds at the Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue. It begins with the Spanish baroque master Francisco de Zurbarán, who in the ...