Julian Bell, Natural Light. The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science (London, 2023). Hilsheimer had a fascinating life, and made some marvelous artworks. And Bell’s telling of that ...

Puck, Tinker Bell, the Fairy Godmother herself: fairies have fluttered throughout literature, theater, and bedtime stories for centuries. These magical beings, often diminutively scaled, have a ...

I used to frequent a (now-shuttered) website called Fine Art. There I encountered a long-dormant culture I could find nowhere else, aesthetically significant works presented in still effective but ...