A master of portraiture and a leading figure of American Impressionism, Cecilia Beaux left a lasting mark on 19th-century painting with her luminous and realistic works. Let’s take a closer look at an ...

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Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

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