From the biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, by Huang Tingjian, c.1095 / Metropolitan Museum of...
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.
Original of one of the Taureador frescos, probably ceremonial, from Knossos Palace, Crete, c.1450 BCE / Archaeological...
Leiden, University Library, BPL MS 2778, photo: Giulio Menna By Dr. Kathryn M. Rudy / 09.19.2016 Senior Lecturer in...
By Dr. Kathryn M. Rudy / 09.19.2016 Senior Lecturer in Art History and Medieval Studies University of...
The Quranic script from North Africa or Near East, ca. 750-800 AD is a unique combination of...
The Western world’s oldest surviving play is also one of its most sorrowful. Here’s a brief summary....
The dining room where the revolutionary war veterans dined. / Library of Congress By Emily Pearce Seigerman...
The “Little Palace” at Knossos, Crete / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of...
“Golden Man” in London / Photo by Katy Hills, Wikimedia Commons  Lecture by Dr. Paul Simpson...
Keith Haring, Untitled, 1984, chalk on paper, 88 1 /2 x 46 inches, photographer: Ivan Dalla Rana ©...
The cover of The Dark Side of Genius:The Melancholic Persona in Art,Ca.1500-1700 by Laurinda S. Dixon, featuring...
A page from Lindisfarne Gospels, circa 715 AD. The Lindisfarne Gospels are attributed to be the work...
By Dr. Jeremy B. RutterProfessor Emeritus of Classical StudiesSherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus in the HumanitiesDartmouth College Common...
Modular book of hours, opened at the beginning of the Vigil for the Dead. / Special Collections...
17th-Century English Church Court / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Lisa M. Lane / 05.16.2016 Professor of History...
Grand Tourists traveled to places such as Rome and Greece to study the ancient ruins and masterpieces...
The Role of Craft Specialization in the Evolution of Prehistoric Societies in the American Southwest 
The Role of Craft Specialization in the Evolution of Prehistoric Societies in the American Southwest
Pueblo Indian pottery: (left) Acoma water jar, c. 1890, (center) Santa Clara vase, c. 1880, (right) San...
The Macaroni. A Real Character at the Late Masquerade (1773), mezzotint by Philip Dawe / Lewis Walpole...
Rubina Raja (center) at the Getty Villa with Frances Terpak (left) and Peter Bonfitto (right) of the...
Minoan royal tomb at ancient Fourni / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of...
Notes on the Preservation The 19th century We hear about Ostian paintings for the first time in...
Ruins of the Church of St. Paul in Pisidian Antioch / Wikimedia Commons 02.22.2017 Introduction Antioch of...
From modest hilltop settlements to wealthy warrior burials, Middle Helladic archaeology reveals how mainland Greece changed before...
Circa instans MS. 626, folios 207v–208r. / Wellcome Library By Dr. Iolanda Ventura / 02.10.2017 Senior Lecturer...
Bing Crosby / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Monica Bowen / 08.27.2014 Professor of Art History Seattle University...
The Battle of Grunwald (July 15, 1410), by Jan Matejko, 1878 / National Museum in Warsaw, Poland...
Roman mint die / British Museum, London Introduction The Roman Empire at the end of the Third...
Gate at Porta Romana / Wikimedia Commons Necropolises NOTE: The Isola Sacra necropolis will be covered in...
Reconstructed illustration of the Palace of Knossos, Crete / Wikimedia Commons By Lisa M. Lane / 10.09.2016...
Installation view of Cupid Carving a Bow from Hercules’s Club (1750); in the background, preparatory drawings for...