Joseph Phelan, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Joseph Phelan

Joseph Phelan holds a Ph.D. in the history of political thought from the University of Toronto. He was the arts editor for Intowner.com, a now-defunct Washington DC free paper where he wrote a regular monthly column. Dr. Phelan has also written for the Weekly Standard, the Claremont Institute, New Criterion, Canadian Review of Books, and The Washington Times.

“Raphael Revealed”: His Life and Influence

By Joseph Phelan|2020-11-04T16:29:31-06:00November 13th, 2020|Categories: Art, Culture, Film, History|

“Raphael Revealed” offers abundant opportunities to view an array of Raphael’s masterpieces up close in the context of the Rome of the early 16th century. One of the richest achievements of European art and culture once again becomes accessible and understandable. Exhibition on Screen, the long-running and highly popular series of high-definition documentary films [...]

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Demystifying the Louvre

By Joseph Phelan|2020-08-26T16:37:23-05:00August 26th, 2020|Categories: Architecture, Art, Books, Culture, History, Western Civilization|

In recounting the growth of one of the West’s grandest cultural achievements, James Gardner is an admirably conservative guide to the impressive qualities of the Louvre. Today when Western civilization is under attack as never before, it is a paradox that the encyclopedic art museum, one of the characteristic achievements of this civilization, is [...]

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