Tag: arts
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‘Madame de Pompadour’: François Boucher’s Portrait of Power
[ad_1] Madame de Pompadour was a power to be reckoned with during the reign of her lover, the French king Louis XV. Born Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, she rose through the proverbial ranks at the court of Versailles starting in 1745, when the king first ennobled her, and she stayed indispensable to Louis long after the…
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Samuel Morse’s Moving Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette
[ad_1] Samuel Morse came to Washington in February 1825, an ambitious but frustrated 33-year-old artist. Before the discovery of telegraphy and the code that bears his name, he was nearly as well known for his paintings as for his father, the famed geographer Jedidiah Morse. Or as the Marquis de Lafayette jested to his son…
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Opinion | No Menorahs, Please
[ad_1] Is allowing a Hanukkah celebration really an endorsement of killing? [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Reverberations of Music From the Holocaust
[ad_1] Yiddish song narrates stories of how Jews treasured life amid terrible suffering. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Will Trump Be Indicted Into Office?
[ad_1] ‘The people call Donald J. Trump.” So began Monday’s episode of the Democratic Party’s favorite legal drama, as Mr. Trump took the witness stand in Manhattan court. The judge in this civil case has already ruled that Mr. Trump’s business empire gave inflated asset numbers to lenders, including by almost tripling the square footage…