Ingrid D. Rowland

Raphael: An Allegory (The Vision of a Knight), circa 1504

The Virtuoso

No less than Michelangelo but much more subtly, Raphael brought on revolutions in art and architecture, and in thought itself.

Raffaello 1520–1483

an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, June 2–August 30, 2020

August 20, 2020 issue

St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, 1993

He Made Stone Speak

Late in life, Michelangelo took on a series of huge, daunting projects, fully aware that he would never live to see them completed.

Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

by William E. Wallace

July 2, 2020 issue

The Master’s Master

Andrea del Verrocchio epitomizes what the Renaissance of art in Florence was all about.

Verrocchio, Il Maestro di Leonardo [Verrocchio, Master of Leonardo]

an exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, March 9–July 14, 2019

Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence

an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 15, 2019–January 12, 2020

Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence

an exhibition at the Frick Collection, New York City, September 18, 2019–January 12, 2020

December 19, 2019 issue

Olafur Eliasson: The weather project, 2003

Filling Our Eyes with Sunshine

Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life

an exhibition at Tate Modern, London, July 11, 2019–January 6, 2020

Olafur Eliasson: Experience

edited by Anna Engberg-Pedersen, with an essay by Michelle Kuo

Studio Olafur Eliasson: The Kitchen

by Olafur Eliasson, with a preface by Alice Waters

September 26, 2019 issue

‘A Painter Not Human’

No one, not even Leonardo or Piero della Francesca, has ever paid such penetrating attention to the way light works as Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina

an exhibition at the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia di Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, December 14, 2018–February 10, 2019

Antonello da Messina

an exhibition at the Palazzo Reale, Milan, February 21–June 2, 2019

May 9, 2019 issue

Roman Holidays

‘Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe’ by Victor Plahte Tschudi

Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe

by Victor Plahte Tschudi

June 28, 2018 issue

Edvard Munch: Sick Mood at Sunset: Despair, 1892

Norwegian Woods

The thrilling complications of Edvard Munch’s art

Towards the Forest: Knausgård on Munch

an exhibition at the Munch Museum, Oslo, May 6–October 8, 2017

Så mye lengsel på så liten flate [So Much Longing on Such a Small Surface]

by Karl Ove Knausgård

Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed

an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 24–October 9, 2017; the Met Breuer, New York City, November 15, 2017–February 4, 2018; and the Munch Museum, Oslo, May 12–September 9, 2018

December 7, 2017 issue

Sebastiano del Piombo: Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Pietà), circa 1512–1516

Roman Rivalries

Michelangelo and Sebastiano

an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, March 15–June 25, 2017

August 17, 2017 issue

Jacopo Carucci Pontormo: Visitation, circa 1528–1529; Bill Viola: The Greeting, 1995

Bill Viola in Florence

The Florentine exhibition “Bill Viola: Electronic Renaissance,” organized around the work of the acclaimed American video artist Bill Viola, has brought the paragone—the age-old debate about the most expressive form of art—into the twenty-first century.

June 21, 2017

Martin Luther’s Burning Questions

On the vast, unpredictable forces his rebellion unleashed

Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation

an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, October 30, 2016–January 15, 2017

Word and Image: Martin Luther’s Reformation

an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, October 7, 2016–January 22, 2017

Law and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation

an exhibition at the Pitts Theology Library, Atlanta, October 11, 2016–January 16, 2017

Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach

an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 20, 2016–March 26, 2017

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

by Lyndal Roper

Brand Luther: 1517, Printing, and the Making of the Reformation

by Andrew Pettegree

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June 8, 2017 issue

The Virtuoso of Compassion

Italy in the 17th century was a magnet for ambitious artists. Why was Caravaggio’s influence so overwhelming?

Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 7, 2016–January 22, 2017; and the Musée du Louvre, Paris, February 20–May 22, 2017

Beyond Caravaggio

an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, October 12, 2016–January 15, 2017; the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, February 11–May 14, 2017; and the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, June 17–September 24, 2017

The Guardian of Mercy: How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today

by Terence Ward

The Seven Acts of Mercy

a play by Anders Lustgarten, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, November 24, 2016–February 10, 2017

May 11, 2017 issue

Robert B. Silvers in his office at The New York Review of Books, early 1980s

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

May 11, 2017 issue

‘Jupiter and Juno’; a detail from Annibale Carracci’s ceiling at the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 1597–1604

The Long Reach of Rome

The Genesis of Roman Architecture

by John North Hopkins

Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple

edited by Michael Jones and Susanna McFadden

Rome 1600: The City and the Visual Arts Under Clement VIII

by Clare Robertson

April 20, 2017 issue

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

March 21, 2017

Migrants who have arrived by boat from North Africa at the port in Lampedusa, March 27, 2011

Lampedusa's Lost Souls

Gianfranco Rosi’s haunting documentary Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) bears eloquent witness to the urgent human drama of migrants and refugees landing on the shores of Lampedusa, in southern Italy.

February 7, 2017

Breakfast in the Ruins

In September 2015, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles acquired the first photographs ever taken of Palmyra, the great trading oasis in the heart of the Syrian desert.

September 17, 2016

Hieronymus Bosch: The Wayfarer, circa 1500–1510

The Mystery of Bosch

No matter how closely we look at his minutely particular works, there is always something more to see

Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius

an exhibition at Noordbrabants Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, February 13–May 8, 2016

Bosch: The Fifth Centenary Exhibition

an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, May 31–September 11, 2016

Hieronymus Bosch: Visions and Nightmares

by Nils Büttner

Jheronimus Bosch: The Road to Heaven and Hell

by Gary Schwartz

Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman: Catalogue Raisonné

by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project

Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman: Technical Studies

by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project

Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights

by Hans Belting

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August 18, 2016 issue

Anton Raphael Mengs: Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, Duquesa de Huescar, 1775

Wonders in the Met’s New Box

Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible

an exhibition at The Met Breuer, New York City, March 18–September 4, 2016

Nasreen Mohamedi: Waiting Is a Part of Intense Living

an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, September 22, 2015–January 11, 2016; and The Met Breuer, New York City, March 18–June 5, 2016

Relation: A Performance Residency

by Vijay Iyer

May 12, 2016 issue

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by architect Frank Gehry. At left are the Nervión River and La Salve Bridge, adorned with Daniel Buren’s artwork Red Arches (2007), commissioned for the museum’s tenth anniversary.

The Frank Gehry Story

A career conspicuously devoted to the service of wealth and celebrity

Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry

by Paul Goldberger

Frank Gehry

an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 13, 2015–March 20, 2016

March 24, 2016 issue

Sublime, Exhilarating del Sarto

Long before they were allowed to apply color, apprentice artists were expected to hone their skills at drawing

Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action

an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 23–September 13, 2015; and the Frick Collection, New York City, October 7, 2015–January 10, 2016

December 17, 2015 issue