The paintings of Giacomo Ceruti, as admired in their own day as they have been neglected in ours, presented the eighteenth century with a paradox that it could not easily resolve: how was it possible ...

Jean-François Thomas de Thomon (1760-1813) is one of the best-known French architects of neoclassicism. Blessed with drawing talent and endowed with the requisite ambition, he left turbulent ...