The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe Art Museum the neglected brother of famous

the neglected brother of famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin Class of 1825]

chef Lei Shishak returns to her first love—good food by the beach

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Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species

especially Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe Art Museum the neglected brother of famousBy Stephen Perkinson With contributions from Naomi Speakman, Katherine Baker, Elizabeth Morrison, and Emma Solberg. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 24 through November 26, 2017. We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period: unsettling depictions