Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, c. 1446-51, Florence (Italy) By Christine Zappella / 08.09.2015 PhD Student in...
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Albert Eckhout, series of eight figures, 1641, oil on canvas (The National Museum of Denmark) Documenting the...
Consider two terminals of American architecture, one positive, one negative, in an epicenter of global capital flows:...
A model of the agora of Athens at its maximum extension during the 2nd century CE. (Agora Museum, Athens) / Photo...
Detail from an image showing fireworks in Hamburg to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Franz I. Stephan...
Luca Signorelli, The Damned Cast into Hell, 1499-1504, fresco, 23′ wide (San Brizio chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy)...
By Dr. Joseph Daubin / 08.09.2015 Distinguished University Professor of History The Graduate Center City University of...
Three Girls, 1890, photographer unknown. Albumen print. Pierre de Gigord Collection of Photographs of the Ottoman Empire...
View of Toledo, Spain with the Samuel Halevi Abulafia synagogue at the center and the Monastery of...
Pitcher (Oinochoe) in the Form of the Head of an African, about 510 B.C., attributed to Class...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 06.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Pyramids of the Old Kingdom The...
Andrew Wyeth stands by a creek on his Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania property in 1964. AP Photo/Bill Ingraham, Creative...
“A Group of Carnations”, a plate from Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807) — Internet Archive Bridal beds, blushing captives,...
Middle left (detail), Scenes from the Apocalypse, Paris-Oxford-London Bible moralisée, France, c. 1225-45 (The British Library, Harley MS...
Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew (detail), Second Initial Page, f.29, early 8th century (British Library) By Louisa Woodville...
Detail from Henry Warren’s 1839 portrait of John Martin, National Portrait Gallery. Max Adams, author of The Prometheans,...
Mosaic Icon with the Virgin and Child, late 1200s, made in Constantinople. Glass and gold tesserae on...
View of the Piazza del Campo, Siena By Dr. Joanna Milk Mac Farland / 12.30.2015 Art Historian...
This figure of a saint was based on a preparatory sketch. Left: Assumption of the Virgin (detail), Andrea del...
Visitors look at the painting The Visit from 1939 by Paul Delvaux during the 2011 exhibition Surrealism...
You’re in a gallery looking at Dani Marti’s It’s All About Peter. What do you do next?...
Illustration from Moonblight (1889) – Internet Archive An esoteric disease which reveals things in their true light; three pairs of...
Patricia Fara traces the changing iconography of Joseph Banks, the English botanist who travelled on Captain Cook’s...
An Elephant (detail) in Miscellany: Physiologus and other texts, about 1510–20, unknown illuminator, made in Crete, Greece. Pen and...
Thinking does not need machines. Robert Couse-Baker, Creative Commons Art history studies cultures, societies, histories, and experiences and how...
Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (commonly known as Whistler’s Mother), by James McNeill Whistler (1871). Wikimedia Commons...
Detail from a print featured in the first part of Vincent’s Wondertooneel der Nature – Rijks Museum Bert van de...
Detail from a version of Sebastian Münster’s sea monster chart (1544 and after), composed from copies of...
Some of the earliest applications of photography came in the fields of archaeology and botany. Pictured is...
Linnaeus Tripe, Front of the Mundapum at Secundermalie, 1858. © Wilson Centre for Photography The history of photography needs to...