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“To Be Is to Be Perceived”: The Concept of Berkeley’s Idealism
Ever thought about whether the world is there only because you think it is? That’s what George Berkeley meant with his ...
This Rural Bolthole Near Edinburgh Is Scotland's Most Charming New Stay
The Penicuik Estate was once a hub for the greatest minds of the Scottish Enlightment—today, it’s a stylish new retreat ...
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La finta giardiniera, The Mozartists, Cadogan Hall review - blooms in the wild garden
Just now, the notion of a long-term project that concludes in 2041 sounds like an optimistic bet on the far future worthy of ...
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Ayscoughfee lights up for new event
Ayscoughfee Enlightenment lit-up the historic hall’s gardens for visitors on Friday and Saturday nights. The event was a ...
The one constant to help us understand the madness coming from the US
There is a constant to which virtually all of the destructive chaos emanating from the United States in the first two months ...
'Give me liberty or give me death' turns 250. Here's what it meant in 1775
Malcolm X referenced it in his 1964 “Ballot or the Bullet” speech, demanding equal rights for Black Americans. President ...
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Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...
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Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
White statues of the classical world also fit ideals of the 18th-century Enlightenment period, such as purity and clarity.
Ancient statues were colorful — and perfumed
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...
Another view of Europe’s golden age
The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...
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See These Ornately Decorated 18th-Century Clocks Before Time Runs Out
An exhibition at London’s Wallace Collection is exploring the art of timekeeping by showcasing five breathtaking clocks designed by André-Charles Boulle, the famed 18th-century Parisian craftsman.
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Hall to re-create 18th Century pleasure garden
Pleasure gardens, like this 1778 depiction of one in Marylebone, London, were a popular haunt of the upper classes A Lincolnshire visitor attraction is to recreate an 18th Century "pleasure garden".