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Burin, Eric: Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society.(Book Review)
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Burin, Eric Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society Gainesville: University Press of Florida 240 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2841-8 Publication Date: August 2005
When is slavery preferable to freedom? For many slaves during the antebellum period, the answer was when freedom meant shipment to Liberia. Burin (PHD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1998, and currently assistant professor of history at the University of North Dakota) lays out in detail the controversial story of the African Colonization Society (ACS) and the ...
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`The Housebook Master' Craftsman
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...known only as "The Housebook Master," has been borrowed...19 of the Housebook Master's works from Amsterdam...centuries whether the Housebook is the work of more...plenty of time; the Housebook Master is so compelling it...
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'Centuries' of drawings; Gallery exhibits masters.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...Munch and Pablo Picasso, among other masters. Showcasing what he deems the finest...Europeans - Altdorfer, Erhard Reuwich (the Housebook Master), Durer and Lucas van Leyden - and...section, the other images by modern masters - Louise Nevelson, Roy Lichtenstein...
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From Days of Yore, A Guide to Knight Life; National Gallery Show Looks Back in Time
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...guards the exhibition's entrance and guards the Housebook Master's Housebook, the treasure at the show's core. The jousting...drawings on its pages are secular to the core. The Housebook Master, clearly, was a complicated fellow, equally...
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`Love and War' during the late Middle Ages: Exhibit gives equisite insight into forces of social change.(Arts)(Art)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...about the late medieval Housebook Master (active circa 1465...mounted display shows Housebook Master's many and...There are the Housebook Master's contemporaries...1450-1467). The Housebook Master copied "The...
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Arts Guide
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...the Oxford University college, a collection of Old Master paintings and drawings, including works by Filippino...and love, and features drawings and prints by the Master of the Housebook who was active c. 1465-1500. It will travel to...
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Cranachs from Copenhagen.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...who, in his planetary guise, presided over artists and scholars; which is how Cranach's contemporary, the Master of the Housebook, depicted him. Cranach painted six versions of The Judgement of Paris between 1527 and 1537, although he interrupted...
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Ancient manual on display
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail
; ...side, experts identify the artist only as "the Housebook Master." "It was a time when artists worked in guilds...a novelty. Unlike some artists of the time, the Housebook Master combined a whimsical sense of humor with a feeling...
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500-Year-Old Manual Gets US Showing
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...side, experts identify the artist only as ``the Housebook Master.'' ``It was a time when artists worked in guilds...a novelty. Unlike some artists of the time, the Housebook Master combined a whimsical sense of humor with a feeling...
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Jan Steen's Lust for Life
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...certainly trained as a brewer, at 22 he registered as a master-painter in that city's artist guild. Throughout...exhibition is "Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints From the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn." Among the 36 prints, six...
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Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Dutch `insights into human nature'.(Arts)(Q&A)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...Steen: Painter and Storyteller" and its complementary exhibition, "Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn." THE SCENE: Steen exhibit curator Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. talks about the paintings in...
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