The Joy of Reading Illustrated Classics I remember when, years ago, looking for Dante’s Divine Comedy, I found myself choosing not recent editions with detailed and easy commentaries but...
The Art of Fin de siècle There are few terms in cultural history that I have found more challenging to understand than “fin de siècle”. It has a strong component...
The Aesthetics and purpose of Cities I think it was in 2016 that I first began thinking of “cities”—by then I had lived in and briefly visited multiple, very different...
Masculine and Feminine Energies in Self and Society I have spent a lot of time reflecting on “the masculine” and “the feminine”—and several YouTubers have given me valuable insights on...
Medieval European Artistic Objects While swiftly going through Western art history in college, I found that different periods—ancient, medieval, Renaissance, modern and contemporary—made certain immediate and general impressions on...