Giuseppe Castiglione’s One Hundred Horses in Motions
During the eighteenth century, the Manchu Qing dynasty sponsored a major revival of courtly arts, which attained a new monumental scale, technical finish, and descriptive intricacy. A key figure in establishing this new court aesthetic was the Italian Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione. A master of vividly naturalistic draftsmanship and large-scale compositions, in Europe he worked as […]
Presidential Power in War and Peace
The November 2024 presidential election has set the United States on a new course for national security and foreign policy. Vice President Kamala Harris, like President Joseph Biden before her, said she would have left untouched the United States’s role as the world’s policeman. Former President Donald Trump, more conscious of the high cost in […]