Spend a winter afternoon discovering nearly 60 pieces by Rousseau at the Barnes, whose “A Painter’s Secrets” exhibit, held in ...

Lions, and tigers, and bare women. These are some of the figures in the iconic jungle pictures by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), a self-taught French artist who strove to realize financial and critical ...

Few philosophers in the Western Canon fell under as intense persecution during their lifetimes as Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). After the publication and subsequent political and ecumenical ...

As soon as he arrived at Wootton Hall, referring again to the subterfuge about the coach fare, Rousseau wrote him “to stop playing once and for all these small tricks from which no good can come.” To ...

IN August, 1764, James Boswell, aged twenty-three and still very much of a boy, was sojourning for a season in Berlin. He had fled from the study of the law in Holland, which had been his serious ...