Justifications for the propagandizing elements in these mosaics are not difficult. Power on earth was once –...
Art
There was new development toward life-likeness and a form of idealized realism. Kamakura Period (1185-1333): New Aesthetic...
Art is a wonderfully tangible pathway to past cultures. By Dr. Arathi Menon Introduction Art is a...
Created between 1377 and 1382, it is the oldest surviving French tapestry. Introduction The Apocalypse Tapestry is...
Mirka Mora was a trailblazer for women artists in the 70s, bringing ‘feminine techniques’ to the forefront...
Tattoo patterns and art on the face and body differed from one Polynesian island group to the...
Byzantine art had become much more expressive and imaginative by the twelfth century. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
The sculpture was recovered at the House of the Eagles, the meeting place of eagle and jaguar...
Works by artists like Velasco, Troya, Chartrand, and Oller offer an alternative to depictions by foreign artists....
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction For the Incas finely worked and highly decorative textiles came to symbolize both...
People have long made their skin into canvases that convey rich personal, spiritual, or ritual meanings in...
From gift-bestowing sparrows and peach-born heroes to goblin spiders and dancing phantom cats — in a series...
Art history students offer a bite-sized introduction to the bestiary of the European Middle Ages. Introduction The...
Next time you come across a toad, you might just want to reconsider becoming acquainted! If you...
We can see how the world once was and glimpse now lost landscapes, flora and fauna. By...
Elephants were thought of as fierce and frightful monsters in antiquity, very real though rarely seen until...
In the 19th century, more people were reading more publications than ever before. This explains how technological,...
Early Christianity used the same artistic media as the surrounding Pagan culture. Introduction Early Christian art and...
It has been suggested that there is a correlation between demographic and social patterns and the flourishing...
How did U.S. and Native American artists portray Indian peoples of the West in the late nineteenth...
An intricate basin features sea creatures, birds, and mythological beasts, which bore a multitude of meanings to...
Leonardo da Vinci saw in animals the ‘image of the world’. About six months ago I stopped...
Scholars agree that the carving and markings were made by human hands. Prehistoric Art around the Globe...
This garden is so vast and rich as to enclose within it many forms of pleasure not...
Deep in the Colorado Plateau, there are paintings from an ancient people. Of the thousands of Native...
In the 19th and early-20th centuries, Japan, among the major countries of Asia, escaped colonial or neo-colonial...
The Sino-Japanese War provided something very new—a modern and highly mechanized war against a foreign foe. Prints...
When artists painted more than one revolution. The Mexican Revolution of 1910, which ended the 35-year presidency...
The art of Florida’s Highwaymen finds a new audience. It was an era when most African Americans...
From as early as the pre-Columbian era, there existed networks of exchange among the early civilizations of...