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...Since the appearance of a whole slew of books on the subject, beginning with Hans Zinsser’s Rats, Lice and History (read at college half a century ago), William McNeill’s Plagues and Peoples and Jared Diamond...
...In 1492, Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer employed by the Spanish crown, crossed the Atlantic. In 1498, Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, reached India....
...It is easy to trace the immediate lineage: Van Dyck’s bold elegance, seen here in the National Gallery’s comic “Drunken Silenus” and Washington’s dashing “A Genoese Noblewoman and Her Son”, and thus to the...
...In William Beechey’s “The Oddie Children”, painted more than 20 years later, a grinning elder brother shoots an arrow at an unseen target, for the admiration of his three sisters....
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