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- The Allure of Animals in Academic Art
- Classical Mythology in 19th-century French Art
- Celebrities: Portrait medals in 19th-Century France
- Oriental “Native Types” from the Dahesh Collection
- Recording Islamic Architecture and Design
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- Painting Piety from the Dahesh Collection
- About Face: Learning to Draw Emotion through Expressive Heads
- From St. Petersburg to Paris: The Education of Russian Artists in France
- Picturing the News: The Birth of the Illustrated Press
- Egyptomania: 19th Century Depictions of Ancient Egypt
- The Franco-Prussian War and Its Aftermath in French Art
- Painting Pompeii: From Neoclassicism to the Néo-Grecs
- The Spanish Orient and Henri Regnault (French, 1843–1871)
- Women Artists Who Dared II: Jeanne Thil (French, 1887–1968) and Marie Hadad (Lebanese, 1889–1973)
- Women Artists Who Dared I: Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899) and Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau (American, 1837–1922)
- Peder Mork Mønsted’s (Danish, 1859–1941) Poetic Views of Nature
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Monthly Archive for: ‘November, 2012’
New York Times reviews “The Essential Line”
Before the advent of action movies, thrill-seekers could always check out some history paintings for the kind of visceral excitement now provided by the likes of James Bond and Jason Bourne. And anyone who has doubts about the similarities between the old and new kinds of blockbuster needs only to have a look at “The Essential Line: Drawings From the Dahesh Museum of Art,” a small, punchy exhibition at Fairfield University’s Bellarmine Museum.