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  • Layo Bright: Let America Be America Again

    I keep returning to the surfaces and details of this self-portrait by Layo Bright, and its title, drawn from Langston Hughes—my favorite poet—Let America Be America Again (1935). A 90-years-old poem, and still just as relevant today. Using the language of flowers and colors (inspired by the American flag), Nigerian-born artist Layo Bright explores themes…

  • Bernini’s Proserpina Through Gautier’s Arria Marcella

    Now housed in Rome’s Galleria Borghese, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Rape of Proserpina (1621–1622) stands as a striking testament to the emotional and technical heights of early Baroque sculpture. Commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese and completed when Bernini was just twenty-three years old, the marble group depicts the abduction of Proserpina (Persephone) by Pluto (Hades), as…

  • Roemer Visscher, l’art de l’emblème et la tulipomanie dans l’Âge d’or des Provinces-Unies

    Roemer Visscher était un négociant néerlandais prospère, mais aussi une figure éminente de la vie intellectuelle et culturelle des Provinces-Unies. Homme cultivé et passionné de littérature, il s’illustra notamment dans l’art des emblèmes, un genre à mi-chemin entre image, devise et interprétation morale. Il appartenait au cercle des rhétoriqueurs In liefde bloeiende (« En amour…