Robert Fludd’s Temple of Music. One of the great seventeenth-century occultist’s contributions to the domain of speculative...
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.
The newly discovered Ancient Roman floor mosaic covers an area of 60 square meters. Photo: TV grab...
Early-modern aristocrats flaunted their wealth—and the talent of their chefs—with elaborate monuments crafted from sugar By Anne...
Aerial view of the Sydney Opera House in its Sydney Harbour setting. Photo courtesy of the Sydney...
Men with dogs’ heads, creatures with giant feet, griffins, sirens and hellish demons can all be found...
Vénus aux forges de Vulcain, from Les Tentures de François Boucher Series, about 1775–1778; after painting by...
Richard Learoyd at the Getty Center, August 29, 2016. Photo: Tristan Bravinder. All rights reserved The English...
Studies for Shoe, Crying Bead, Oval Braid and Spinster Braid, 1978, Harmony Hammond. The Getty Research Institute,...
The Getty Villa in Malibu, completed in 1974, is modeled after an ancient Roman countryside home in...
Portrait of a Young Man in Red, about 1505, Circle of Raphael. Oil on panel, 26 1/2...
Bankers and Silk Merchants, from Vincent of Beauvais’ Mirror of History, Ghent, about 1475. Tempera colors and...
By Miranda Garno Nesler / 08.03.2016 Following the death of queen Elizabeth I, Queen Anna of Denmark...
The elements of art, described entirely in verse—using real and mythological creatures By Porche’ Carter / 08.09.2016...
Initial A: Christ Wiping the Tears from the Eyes of the Saved, attributed to the Master of...
Worth a thousand words? Or $37 million. Darren Ornitz/Reuters By Dr. Robert Ekelund / 08.02.2016 Eminent Scholar...
Some of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the world – treasures combining gold and precious pigments – will go...
Lightbulbs, about 1938, Fred G. Korth. Gelatin silver print, 13 1/4 x10 5/16 in. The J. Paul...
By S.K. Narasimhan Sculpture The story of Indian art and sculpture dates back to the Indus...
Felling Trees on the Ile de Croissy (Massacre of the Innocents), 1847, Théodore Rousseau. Oil on canvas,...
In the galleries of Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts. Photo: Bryan C. Keene. All rights reserved...
The pilgrim’s manuscript (detail), ca. 968, Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China. Ink on paper,...
Mummy Portrait of a Woman (detail), A.D. 100–110, attributed to the Isidora Master. Encaustic on wood; gilt;...
Guiding (or Yinlu) Bodhisattva (detail), ca. 851–900 CE. Ink and pigments on silk with gold leaf. British...
A portrait of Frank Norris by the painter Ernest Clifford Peixotto, possibly Norris’ oldest friend, the two...
Mosaic of a Lion Attacking an Onager, A.D. 150–200, Roman, made in Tunisia. Stone and glass tesserae,...
In the galleries of Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts. Photo: Bryan C. Keene. All rights reserved...
Mosaic Floor with a Boxing Scene, A.D. 175, Roman, found in Villelaure, France. Stone and glass tesserae,...
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (1868), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. By Dr. Ricky J....
Details from Blue and White Dish with a Merchant Ship about 1510; Barlaam and Josaphat, 1469; and...
By Amalini De Sayrah / 05.23.2016 All Photos from Amalini De Sayrah, Groundviews The skies overhead were overcast. Strong...