This comprehensive survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. These two regions developed their own distinct styles and techniques but were also influenced...

"From writer Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, comes a gorgeous and inspiring book of cards: one hundred "divinations" for daily living, partway between poem and koan yet neither, collaged from the texts and illustrations of 19th-century...