Under the Gables

The Crucifixion, with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist Mourning by Rogier van der Weyden, 1460-65. From the Philadelphia Museum of ...

It has occurred to me that the films Atonement and Bright Star mirror each other in many ways. Both center on the doomed relationship betw...

Mother Caressing Her Convalescent Daughter by Charles Willson Peale, 1818. This painting is a marvel of emotional openness among three peop...

Elinor, Jean, and Anna by George Wesley Bellows, 1920. The great baritone William Warfield (1920-2002) was born to a family of sharecroppers...

Martha Washington by Gilbert Stuart. She accompanied Washington throughout the war, exemplary of many women, whose portraits we of course d...

Toots Brawne and her sister, Fanny, the fiance of the great English poet John Keats. Bright Star is a film no one who loves sewing could no...