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Helene Schjerfbeck’s Defiant Paintbrush
Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) did not go gentle into that good night. In 1944, war still raging, the eighty-two-year-old Finnish painter moved to the outskirts of Stockholm to avoid outbreaks...
The Man Who Painted the Reformation
In July 1519, Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote a letter describing his friend and fellow humanist Thomas More. “His expression,” Erasmus wrote, “shows the sort of man he is, always...
