By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University Like portraiture,...
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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...
By Joey Lee and KangJing / 04.22.2016 Minasan Kon’nichiwa! Many of us would know that Japan is...
Detail, Man’s Prestige Cloth, early 20th century, Akan peoples, Asante group, silk and cotton, 289.6 x 172.7...
By Anna O’Faolan / 12.14.2016 Exploring the Nature of Creativity Does an optimistic mood bring greater creative...
Two Female Figures in Half-length and a Study of a Hand, 1861, Friedrich Preller. The J. Paul...
Paintings conservator Devi Ormond cleans Guercino’s Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, c. 1620, Guercino. On loan...
Unprocessed bankers boxes from Knoedler Archive A glimpse into three years and a half of teamwork organizing,...
Ocean Park #79, 1975, Richard Diebenkorn. Philadelphia Museum of Art, purchased with a grant from the National...
12.01.2016 All photos by the artist, Julia Koceva 23-year-old Julia Koceva has taken the internet by storm with...
Anita Francis, ‘The Complete Works of Shakespeare,’ book sculpture, 2014. By permission of the artist. Anita Francis,...
11.15.2016 Chinsekikan, or The Hall of Curious Rocks is a unique museum in the Japanese town Saitama,...