A new collaboration between between ecologists and art historians explored whether it’s possible to get accurate information about landscape ecology from nineteenth century paintings. They studied the ...

A review of Art: A New History, by Paul Johnson. The modern sensibility recoils against the “great man” model of history: history as the account of decisive events, shaped by the autonomous actions of ...

Tucked behind the grand staircase of London’s former Old War Office, a piece of intriguing art sits. It consists of 55 separate portraits of a diverse collection of women. Interspersed between each ...

Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts This publication has been produced to meet accepted Accessibility standards and contains various accessibility features including concise image ...

"This volume, and a forthcoming companion volume on antiquarianism and archaism in Japanese and Korean art, result from two symposia organized by the Center for the Art of East Asia and held at the ...

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous artists. That 1941 MoMA show was full of ancient Native objects, along with ...

A month or so before the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego opened its doors on Feb. 28, 1926, inaugural director Reginald Poland arrived in town with a trove of precious international artworks to fill ...

What prompted the idea for the course? The idea for this course came out of my own research on intersections between art and science in the early modern period, roughly 1400-1700. In this time, the ...

From classical painting to video games, this survey of the taboo and the twisted won’t let you look away ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...