Pont du Gard, in Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Gard department, South France. The Pont du Gard is the most famous...
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.
By David Brafman and Lisa Cambier / 07.19.2012 Brafman: Rare Books Curator, Getty Research Institute Cambier:...
The Mithraeum of the Seven Gates. / Photograph: Bill Storage. Mithraism By Alison Griffith Mithraism is the...
Reconstruction painting of the Acropolis and Areus Pagus in Athens, by Leo von Klenze / Neue Pinakothek...
Georgian alphabet. An entry in the ‘Write in Georgian Contest’. Photo from official website of ‘Write in...
Horrea Epagathiana, Ostia Antica / Wikimedia Commons Introduction Impression of the unloading of a ship. / Misurare...
Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux (detail), 1739–41, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Pastel and gouache on paper...
Kritios Boy / Archaeological Museum, Athens By Dr. Monica Bowen / 08.27.2014 Professor of Art History Seattle...
The history of fire stations dates back all the way to ancient Egypt. The first fire brigade in...
The Bel Temple, Aleppo, 2004. Courtesy of and © Ross Burns. All rights reserved An archaeologist explains...
Roman gate at Porta Roman / Wikimedia Commons Introduction In the late-republican period a wall was built...
Christian buildings, Christian evidence in buildings, and destruction of buildings by Christians in ancient Ostia. Buildings Oratorio...
11.17.2015 Description: The Temple of Trajan, also called Trajaneum, is one of the most spectacular structures in...
View of the Roman forum, looking toward the Colosseum (photo: Steven Zucker) By Dr. Jessica Leah Ambler...
Roman Serapeum in Alexandria, Egypt / Photo by Jerzga Franklin, Pinterest Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh /...
Augustus as Pontifex Maximus: head covered, wearing the toga and calcei patricii (shoes reserved for Patricians), he...
Epitaph for Margarita, marble slab inscription / British Museum By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz / 08.14.2015 From The...
One of a Pair of Cups with Centaurs (detail), A.D. 1–100, Roman, found at Berthouville, France. Silver...
Tomb (of the Funeral Bed?), 470-60 B.C.E., found in the necropolis of Tarquinia (Villa Giulia, Rome) Author...
The ancient Roman city of Ostia was in antiquity situated at the mouth of the river Tiber,...
 Left: A Sumerian tablet with cylinder seal impression of a hunter with hunting dogs and boars....
Stupa 3, 1st c., Sanchi, India (photo: Nagarjun Kandukuru) By Dr. Karen Shelby / 08.09.2015 Assistant Professor of Art History Baruch...
The warrior was buried in an olive grove outside the acropolis of Pylos. Though archaeologist Carl Blegen...
By Dr. Ethan Watrall / 10.27.2014 Assistant Professor of Anthropology Michigan State University To the Ancient Egyptians,...
Alfonso X of Castile and his court, as shown in the 12th-century Libro de los Juegos /...
Aztec Sun Stone (Calendar Stone) / National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City By René Voorburg Introduction A colored...
Introduction Horrea for grain – light blue; dolia defossa – dark blue; other store buildings – yellow;...
Tablet V of the epic of Gilgamesh. The left half of the whole tablet has survived and...
From a teensy skeleton to a dog’s tombstone, a tour through the most evocative death-related objects in...
Statue base of Hadrian set in the Theatre of Dionysus on the south slope of the Acropolis,...