Celtic art must be judged largely by examining only the art objects themselves and the contexts in...
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This was an intellectual conversation starter—filled with meanings waiting to be decoded by an elite, art-literate audience....
How a 1970s feminist art group showed the value of hidden work. By Sarah WadeSpecial Collections ArchivistGetty...
Records of the Parisian gallery Tedesco frères tell a story of commercial success. By Dr. Isabella Zuralski-YeagerSpecial...
Why were such lavish portraits of nuns created on the occasion of their profession, and who were...
The theme of protection of Christians and the Christian faith was common in the Spanish viceroyalties of...
Amiens Cathedral provides a window into the practice and culture of religious belief of the Middle Ages....
Although today Atkins’s prints are sold and viewed as art, they were originally made as botanical illustrations....
How Gilda Darthy’s bed tells a story about writing women back into history. By Amanda BermanCuratorial Assistant,...
The tombs were found almost completely undisturbed. A Golden Discovery In 1987, Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva received...
The technology of printing had advanced rapidly as it became available to commercial publishers in the seventeenth...
Neolithic people did not write. However, because they lived in settled communities, they left many traces. By...
A fearsome predator? A fragile icon of impending extinction? What these arctic giants have stood for in...
Communicating the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean. By Paula Gaither, Elisa McAtee, Kenneth Lapatin, and David Saunders...
What is iconography? And how do you use the iconographic method to analyze art? How to Do...
Cameras played a critical role in the quest for social equality for Black Americans in the post-slavery...
The Byzantines began creating portable mosaic icons by setting small tesserae into wax or resin on wood...
Of all the causes to which Galileo’s image has been applied, freedom of thought and expression is...
This quadrivium miniature has often been cited as evidence for the prescience of the Carolingian educational reforms....
The Byzantines also created art and architecture with no religious imagery and without explicit religious functions in...
The sixteen murals displayed within depict the life and traditions of the Kiowa people, a Plains Indian...
They were not seen by anyone except at the burial ceremony or perhaps briefly when another family...
There is a vibrancy in Minoan art which was not present in the contemporary East. Introduction The...
We see an artist attempting to represent the diverse ethnic makeup of the Spanish viceroyalty of New...
This wool cloth is now sometimes known as “cashmere” after the old English spelling of “Kashmir”. Introduction...
The Mỹ Sơn sanctuary was built by the Chams, who once dominated what is today southern Vietnam...
The Dutch occupied this city, as well as several others in Asia, for centuries. A Castle on...
In 1976, the exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art, 1750 to 1950, curated by David Driskell,...
They followed a similar pattern of studying abroad for a few years and returning home to teach...
The map is organized on a grid—as was the actual city it represents. Introduction In 1581, an...