Golden Gate Bridge in the evening sun / Photo by Octagon, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Hota...
Art History
Explore art across cultures and centuries, following the people who created it and the societies that gave it meaning. These histories examine how images, objects, monuments, and built spaces preserved belief, displayed power, challenged convention, and reshaped human perception.
“Shouldering the imitation ox”, from a 1909 edition of Richard Kearton’s Wild Nature’s Ways / archive.org John...
By Dr. William A. Christian Former Visiting Professor of Religious History, University of California, Santa Barbara Historian...
Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos (or possibly Battle of Gaugamela), floor...
Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, 2004. / Photo by John Sullivan, Wikimedia Commons The...
Anonymous, Allegory of Independence (detail), 1834 (Museo Histórico Curato de Dolores, Guanajato, INAH) By Dr. Maya Jiménez...
Founded in 1785 as the Americas’ earliest official art academy, San Carlos taught European Neoclassicism before artists...
By Dr. Richard De Puma Professor Emeritus of Art History University of Iowa Etruscan Studies 11:9 (2008),...
A Roman Feast, by Roberto Bompiani, late 19th century / Getty Center, Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
The fall of man and God’s covenant with Noah, from the Vienna Genesis, folio 3 recto, early...
Horses disembarking from Norman longships, Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1070, embroidered wool on linen, 20 inches high (Bayeux...
Fresco from Mycenae (1250-1180 BCE). Photo by Mark Cartwright, Archeaological Museum Mycenae By Judith Weingarten / 11.27.2016...
Though some claim the stone structure at Pumapunku were alien, archaeologists find no real mysteries there. By...
Photo by Tom Murphy, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jack Lule Professor of Journalism and Communication Lehigh University...
Lee Kang Bin 05.11.2017 Photos by Lee Kang Bin / Instagram The latte art scene in Korea...
Interior of the Tomb of the Reliefs at Cerveteri (ancient Caere). 3rd century BCE / Photo by...
Baristas at L.A.’s Civil Coffee use a flick of the wrist to make coffee with an Impressionist...
Latent fingermarks dusted with micronised Egyptian blue on a $20 note, viewed in the Near Infrared. Simon...
The Birth of Minverva, by René-Antoine Houasse, 17th century / Palace of Versailles By Dr. Shanna Kennedy-Quigley...
A mysterious winged woman with acanthus tendrils in Tarquinia’s Tomb of the Typhon may embody Cel, the...
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Map of ancient Rome and Forma Urbis, from Le antichità Romane, 1835-1839. By Dr....
By Dr. Brita Alroth Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History Upplala University, Sweden Introduction The title of...
Reconstruction of the Basilica of Maxentius / Jorgen Hartogs, Vimeo By Katleiah Ramos / 09.30.2013 Introduction...
Provinces and districts of Ottoman Syria (1696). Palmyra/Tadmor is not marked; my red dot indicates its approximate...
Witches presenting wax dolls to the devil, featured in The History of Witches and Wizards (1720) /...
Figure 1: Map of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent under Trajan By Marissa Gelms /...
Tumulus II of Melone del Sodo at Cortona. Detail of Staircase. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Ingrid...
Apollo Crowning Himself (detail), 1781–82, Antonio Canova. Marble, 33 3/8 in. high. The J. Paul Getty Museum,...
A photograph by James Anderson, taken between 1845 and 1855, of the Laocoön statue, as it appears...
Untitled from the series Television Political Mosaics 1968–1969, 1968–69, Donald Blumberg. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Donald...