When I was in college I took a course in the Enlightenment. In those days, when people spoke of the Enlightenment, they usually meant the French Enlightenment — such thinkers as Descartes, Rousseau, ...
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 ...
In Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment, Middlebury College history professor Monod challenges contemporary assumptions that the Enlightenment successfully quashed belief in ...
Irish Art in the Age of Enlightenment at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on 3 Feb. A talk by Dr Matthew Whyte on how Irish artists engaged with Enlightenment ideals and questions of identity, place, and ...