Dear Bill Gates, 1999, Allan Sekula. Photograph. The Getty Research Institute, 2016.M.22. © Allan Sekula Studio LLC....
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.
Judaism: An Introduction By Dr. Jessica Hammerman (left) and Dr. Shaina Hammerman (right) / 08.08.2015 Jessica...
Viewing the Bayeux tapestry at the Bayeux Museum; Bayeux tapestry, c. 1070, embroidered wool on linen, 20...
Danaë, 1621–23, Orazio Gentileschi. Oil on canvas, 63 5/8 x 89 1/4 in. The J. Paul Getty...
Ancient Palmyra expressed its prosperity and multicultural identity through hybrid temples and elaborate family tombs, where carved...
Veda Performance at TACO Diwali, 2016 / YouTube Screen Capture By Dr. Christian Lee Novetzke / 10.01.2015...
Megaron at Pylos / Photo by University of North Carolina By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus...
London Fog / From James Buntag, Twitter Lecture by Dr. Christine Corton at the Museum of London...
Ruins of the agora at Troy / UNESCO World Heritage Centre By Dr. Jim Marks / 11.30.2012...
Edited by Dr. Robert SchwartzE. Nevius Rodman Professor of HistoryMount Holyoke College The Evolving Relationship between Nature...
Interior of the tholos tomb at the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, 13th century BCE / Wikimedia Commons...
The Songhai (also Songhay or Sonrai) people of West Africa / Photo by Maria Magdalena Ruiz O’Farrill...
So-called Treasury (Khazneh), Petra (Jordan), 2nd century C.E. (photo: Colin Tsoi) By Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis / 08.08.2015...
[LEFT]: The Guildhall complex in c.1805. The buildings on the left and right have not survived....
One of the east storage magazines in the palace at Malia / Photo by Ian Swindale, MinoanCrete.com...
By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University Like portraiture,...
The Kaminaljuyú clay figurine from the Middle to late Preclassic (1500 BC – 150 AD). (Kaminal Juyú...
Tonto Polychrome jar / Dallas Museum of Art By Guity Novin / 03.23.2014Graphic Designer, Artist The graphic...
Reconstruction of a late Cycladic Ship with a hypothetical visualization of the eruption on the Pre-Kameni Island...
Edouard Manet, Porto Santo Island sketch, 1848. This sketch was sent to Manet’s mother in a letter,...
Photograph of Old Cloth/Street & Co, photo by Thomas Annan, 1878 / Public Domain By Dr. Lionel...
The lavish grave circles at Mycenae contained wealth unlike anything previously seen on the Greek mainland, illuminating...
The Standard of Ur War Panel, 2600 BCE / British Museum, London Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh...
Detail of a Turfan Manichaen Illuminated Scroll / Turfan Antiquarian Bureau, China By Guity Novin / 03.23.2014...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.04.2017 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Kaymakli A large room several floors down into...
By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University From Thomas...
These four volumes of German poetry are wrapped in manuscript waste materials written in Hebrew. / J....
The graphic design artist who created this magnificent Tarot deck was Gioseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718) from Bologna,...
1:10 Hill and Adamson, “Newhaven Fishermen.” By Thomas Annan, 1845. Salted paper print. Metropolitan Museum of Art....
The sacrifice of Polyxena by the triumphant Greeks (Attic black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora, c.570-550 BCE) / British Museum,...