It marked the beginning of the Louis XIV style combining architecture, interior design, and landscape design. Introduction...
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Exploring the history of the “physic garden” and its modern manifestations. Plants and medicine, gardening and healing...
We see how one 14th-century man understood the political and ethnic realities of his world. Introduction What...
How incidents of non-suicidal self-injury were filtered through plays, poems, and songs. Introduction In 1718 the writer...
Barbara Kruger’s ‘Untitled (Your body is a battleground)’ is inspiring a new generation of media-savvy artists and...
The author asks why Paula Rego’s open portrayal of abortion is still so rare in the art...
Pottery was independently invented in many parts of the world at different times. Introduction Pottery is the first...
The material’s rich history is being traced using modern archaeology and materials science. Introduction Today, glass is...
A selection of books, articles, and resources on conceptualizing race in the Ancient world. Introduction Race is...
Many dark-skinned people who appear in portraits of European royals were later painted white or simply cropped...
Exploring identities of individuals across four creative domains in the present day: contemporary art, fashion, film, and...
Public bathing was an essential part of ancient Roman urban life and an afternoon in the baths...
Nature and the seasons have played a vital role as a source of inspiration in the arts...
They captured these places with stunning austerity and incredible consistency. Introduction In the late 1950s, photographers Bernd...
In the ancient Roman world, sexual pleasure was a cause for celebration rather than a source of...
Arts of adornment often function as signifiers of social belonging and individual status. Introduction What do your...
A small sample of artworks showcases the astonishing diversity that characterizes what we now know as “Baroque”...
Talking to a Black art collector and a curator about the ethics of cultural ownership. In 2017,...
Navigating the art of the past requires a different set of tools. Why Study Italian Renaissance Art?...
This sale is a record for one of the Renaissance Italian master’s drawings. Representing a naked man...
The United States in particular experienced a period of economic bounty after World War II. Consumer Products...
The early-20th century Polish artist known as “Witkacy” would consume various intoxicants before creating pastel portraits. This...
Works of art since ancient times have revealed the complexities of a wide range of gender identities...
Legal issues such as data ownership, privacy, liability, and jurisdiction remain in question. With its relatively low...
In 1943, farmers from the village of La Victoria discovered a cache of buried items, including the...
The definition of Latino art is broad and includes art from Mexico, Central America, and Latin America...
European and American modern art from the 1830s through the 1940s within a global context and the...
Torquemada pioneered the cryptic: a puzzle form that, like modernist poetry, unwove language and rewove it anew....
Seeing the feathered members of a Getty art collection through an expert’s eyes. Introduction As artistic styles...
The Byzantines found themselves in contact with an ever-expanding range of cultural groups. The treasury of the...