Forum, looking toward Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii Pompeii was not always a Roman town. By the mid-sixth century...
Architecture
Architecture records how people have imagined space and constructed communities across time. Temples, homes, civic buildings, and modern skylines reveal changing relationships between society and power.
The Shinto shrine of Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha, Mount Fuji. The site’s most important shrine, it was...
Detail of a relief at Persepolis showing a procession of subject peoples bringing gifts characteristic of their...
Photo by Stephen Bugno, Flickr, Creative Commons Conserving the landscape around Angkor Wat in the face of...
Heddal Stave Church (Creative Commons) These historic churches feature elaborate carvings that mix Christian and Viking symbols....
Christopher Bordenave and Sasha Rivero perform Sky Echo at the Getty An is not exclusive to sound....
Nan Madol, 13th-17th century C.E., Pohnpei, The Federated States of Micronesia (photo: smwd0030, CC BY 2.0) Sometimes art...
Silbury Hill Neolithic mound. It stands 30 metres high and 160 metres wide, and comprises half a...
Otto Wagner, Postal Savings Bank, Vienna, 1904-06 and 1910-12 “What is impractical can never be beautiful.” –...
The art and architecture of Southeast Asia was heavily influenced by Indian religions and artistic styles. Curated/Reviewed...
Machu Picchu Exploring the work of South American indigenous people’s before colonization. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh...
View from north-east of Reims Cathedral (High Gothic) / Photo by G.Garitan, Wikimedia Commons By Valerie Spanswick /...
The Āmeri House is a historic house in Kashan, in Isfahan Province, in Iran / Photo by...
Various statues carved on the temple walls depicting the Indian Gods in various moods. / Photo by...
Society has always been infatuated with dating and finding true love, especially during the Middle Ages. By Dr....
dwell.com Looking at the urban social history of Accra through the singular Oxford Street, part of the city’s...
A detail of the south porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian acropolis. The building was constructed between 421 to...
Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia / Photo by Bin im Garten, Wikimedia Commons What is the...
The Lion Gate at Mycenae / Photo by Andreas Trepte, Wikimedia Commons The art and architecture of Mycenaean...
The North Portico in Knossos, Crete, Greece / Photo by Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons The Protopalatial period...
Santa Maria Novella (Leon Battista Alberti was responsible for the façade, completed in 1470) By Dr. Sally...
The Great Wall of China, built 221 BCE-1664 CE. / Photo by Emily Mark, Creative Commons Mark of...
Leon Battista Alberti, Basilica of Sant’Andrea, 1472-90, Mantua (Italy) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC: BY-NC-SA 3.0) By Dr....
Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, c. 1446-51, Florence (Italy) By Christine Zappella / 08.09.2015 PhD Student in...
Consider two terminals of American architecture, one positive, one negative, in an epicenter of global capital flows:...
A model of the agora of Athens at its maximum extension during the 2nd century CE. (Agora Museum, Athens) / Photo...
View of Toledo, Spain with the Samuel Halevi Abulafia synagogue at the center and the Monastery of...
During Egypt’s Old Kingdom, royal burial was transformed through monumental pyramids and enduring sculpture that joined state...
View of the Piazza del Campo, Siena By Dr. Joanna Milk Mac Farland / 12.30.2015 Art Historian...
Portrait of Ada Louise Huxtable, 1970s. Photograph by L. Garth Huxtable. The Getty Research Institute, 2013.M.9 “Buildings...