Courtesy of Britain’s Enlightenment and its “moral philosophers,” the religious virtue of compassion has become a secular one, and a private duty has become a public responsibility, writes Gertrude ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: savants, artisans, artistes. Part 1 The natural history of the arts : Lost knowledge and the history of the arts -- Réaumur and the science of the arts. Part 2 The ...

Voltaire, a prominent Enlightenment thinker, left a vast literary legacy. His writings championed reason, tolerance, and ...

Voltaire's quote, “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well,” reflects on ...

This course will address the history of French art from Neoclassicism through Romanticism, or from approximately 1770-1860 and the social, philosophical and political ideas that informed the art's ...