Ambitious exhibition ‘Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment’ captures the first real age of mass media. How enlightened, truly, was the Enlightenment, a period in Europe ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Roll over Voltaire and tell Kant and Hobbes the news. The Cleveland Museum of Art has trained focus on the Enlightenment period in Europe (1685–1815, aka “the age of reason”) with ...
Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, “Muscles of the Back,” Plate 14 (detail) from “Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle” (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size) by ...
46 ½ x 25 ½ x 33 ½ in. (118 x 65 x 85 cm.) 29 x 33 x 19 ½ in. (74 x 84 x 50 cm.) 39 ½ x 20 ½ x 20 ½ in. (100 x 52 x 52 cm.) ...
“The Great Divide” explores how ideas that came to the fore during the Enlightenment at once blurred social hierarchies and reinforced them, particularly along ...
Dr. Bell is a professor of history at Princeton. Will artificial intelligence bring about an intellectual revolution as profound as the Enlightenment? Enthusiasts like to make this claim, and even use ...