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Artdaily - The First Art Newspaper on the Net


The First Art Newspaper on the Net
 
A visitor studies Titian’s portrait, “Benedetto Varchi,” left, and Bronzino’s “Allegorical portrait of Dante,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570,” exhibit in New York, June 21, 2021. The sweep of Italian history and art history in dazzling portraits from the dynasty’s final hurrah, on view in a sumptuous exhibition at the Met. Diana Markosian/The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- It’s hard to imagine Florence, cradle of the High Renaissance of early modern Europe, without its avaricious, venal, culture-conscious first family, the Medicis. Crowned and uncrowned, during periods of supposedly republican government and not, they largely ruled the city-state, or connived to, from the mid-14th to the mid-18th centuries, using art to cement their power. They excelled at banking and prospered especially when their Rome branch quietly became banker to ....

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Reading Dan Frank, Book Editor and 'Champion of the Unexampled'


Reading Dan Frank, Book Editor and ‘Champion of the Unexampled’
Alan Lightman, Janna Levin and others recall the editor who shaped their work and a literary genre. Plus, more reading recommendations in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter.
Dan Frank was the invisible guiding hand to a constellation of literary science writers, helping to define and expand the genre. Credit.NASA Goddard
Summer is basically here, and now is the moment to find a book to fall into.
I encourage you to begin with almost any book published by Dan Frank, the editor at Pantheon and Knopf who died earlier this week at age 67. Dan’s range of authors was wide, from Cynthia Ozick to Cormac McCarthy, Art Spiegelman to Jill Lepore. But he was known especially for nurturing a certain genre of writing about science and the natural world, with probing, elegant books by Oliver Sacks, James Gleick, Gretel Ehrlich, David Eagleman and many more. ....

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