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Art
The Ascension of Christ (detail) from the Laudario of Sant’Agnese, about 1340, Pacino di Bonaguida. Tempera and...
Augusto de Campos’s Lygia Fingers, a poem from 1953 for his wife-to-be, Lygia Azeredo, highlights the international...
Giacomo Balla, Street Light, c. 1910-11 (dated 1909), oil on canvas, 174.7 x 114.7 cm (The Museum...
By Guity Novin / 03.23.2014 Graphic Designer, Artist During the 19th century many artists looked at their...
Dear Bill Gates, 1999, Allan Sekula. Photograph. The Getty Research Institute, 2016.M.22. © Allan Sekula Studio LLC....
Judaism: An Introduction By Dr. Jessica Hammerman (left) and Dr. Shaina Hammerman (right) / 08.08.2015 Jessica...
Danaë, 1621–23, Orazio Gentileschi. Oil on canvas, 63 5/8 x 89 1/4 in. The J. Paul Getty...
London Fog / From James Buntag, Twitter Lecture by Dr. Christine Corton at the Museum of London...
The Songhai (also Songhay or Sonrai) people of West Africa / Photo by Maria Magdalena Ruiz O’Farrill...
By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University Like portraiture,...
Edouard Manet, Porto Santo Island sketch, 1848. This sketch was sent to Manet’s mother in a letter,...
Photograph of Old Cloth/Street & Co, photo by Thomas Annan, 1878 / Public Domain By Dr. Lionel...
The Standard of Ur War Panel, 2600 BCE / British Museum, London Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh...
Detail of a Turfan Manichaen Illuminated Scroll / Turfan Antiquarian Bureau, China By Guity Novin / 03.23.2014...
By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University From Thomas...
1:10 Hill and Adamson, “Newhaven Fishermen.” By Thomas Annan, 1845. Salted paper print. Metropolitan Museum of Art....
“Golden Man” in London / Photo by Katy Hills, Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Paul Simpson...
Keith Haring, Untitled, 1984, chalk on paper, 88 1 /2 x 46 inches, photographer: Ivan Dalla Rana ©...
Bing Crosby / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Monica Bowen / 08.27.2014 Professor of Art History Seattle University...
By David Brafman and Lisa Cambier / 07.19.2012 Brafman: Rare Books Curator, Getty Research Institute Cambier:...
Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux (detail), 1739–41, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Pastel and gouache on paper...
Self-Portrait, about 1730, Edme Bouchardon (French, 1698–1762). Red chalk, 19.8 x 13.5 cm. The Morgan Library &...
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Reclining Nude in Front of Mirror, 1909-1910, oil on canvas, 83.3 x 95.5 cm (Brücke-Museum,...
By Carole Raddato / 03.13.2016 Historian On a recent trip to Southern Spain, I travelled along the...
How could this unusual object be a table? By Tristan Bravinder / 08.29.2016 Social Media Producer Getty...
By Isabella Zuralski / 12.02.2014 Senior Special Collections Cataloguer Getty Research Institute The difference between “German drawings”...
Page from the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, 1200–1521 A.D., Mixtec. Painted deer skin, 19 x 23.5 cm. / The...
Prambanan temple ruins, built c.mid-9th century CE / Wikimedia Commons By Mark Cartwright / 12.19.2016 Historian Adisthana –...
Image from Art Institute of Chicago Museum What is Art? Overview Art is a highly diverse range...