Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant, 1866, Jacques Joseph Tissot. Oil on canvas, 50...
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A reconstructed relief panel from the original on the Arch of Titus, Rome, c. 81 CE. The scene, showing...
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Video produced by Dr. Naraelle Hohensee, Dr. Steven Zucker...
Portrait of King George I from the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1714 / National Portrait Gallery,...
Writing table, about 1670–75, French. Oak veneered with ivory, blue-painted horn, ebony, rosewood, and amaranth, with drawer...
Terracotta Army detail, Xi’an, China / Photo by Peter Morgan, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Rolando Minuti /...
By Dr. Kevin Linch / 01.30.2012 Associate Professor of Modern History University of Leeds Introduction Throughout European...
The Sack of Troy: A warrior kills Astyanax, son of Hektor, dealing the final blow to the...
The Pantheon, Rome, c. 125 By Dr. Paul A. Ranogajec / 12.11.2015 Professor of Art History Brooklyn...
People in Downtown Havana / Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art By Jessica Portner / 07.18.2011 Editorial...
One of Julius Shulman’s views of Chichen Itza with a Chac Mool in the foreground. Julius Shulman...
Photo by Fred Boissonnas, Public Domain By Yiannis Antoniou and Vassilis Bogiatzis Antoniou: Hellenic Open University Bogiatzis: National Technical University of...
Bay of Palermo, Sicily, 1963, Samuel J. Magnolia. Mural painting, about 8 1/2 x 15 ft. Photo...
Plato´s Symposium, by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869 / Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, via Wikimedia Commons The practice of reclining to dine...
Richard Smith as Henry David Thoreau / Photograph by Maria Lewis A living historian’s peculiar communion at...
Combined image of Beer Street and Gin Lane, by William Hogarth / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Klaus-Dieter Ertler / 06.28.2012...
Installation view of Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros at...
By the end of the 13th century, the Mongol Empire covered 9.27 million square miles, spanning a...
These “oracle bone” fragments, some of which show an ancient Chinese script, are housed at the Royal...
1908 postcard of the White City Stadium, the main arena built especially for the 1908 Olympics Rebecca...
Detail from “How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs,” Time magazine, December 22, 1941 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 25), p....
By Dr. Christian Marx / 09.28.2012 Professor of Economic History University of Trier Abstract This article discusses...
Waldseemüller (Martin Waldseemüller) map from 1507 is the first map to include the name “America” and the first...
By Dr. Ioannis Papadogiannakis Lecturer in Patristics King’s College London Earth and sea are freed from their...
Keystone in the Shape of a Foliate Face, about 1225–36, made in Stymphalia, Greece. Stone, probably sandstone,...
By Dr. Don C. Skemer / 10.14.2016 Curator of Manuscripts Rare Books & Special Collections Department Princeton...
Detail from Jan van Neck’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederick Ruysch (1683), showing Ruysch in the centre with an...
Monumental funerary vases from the Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, now on display at the Getty Villa....
The Oracle, 1880, Camillo Miola (Biacca). Oil on canvas, 42 1/2 x 56 1/4 in. The J....
The Ancestors of Christ: David, Solomon – Michelangelo By Krista M.B. / 07.22.2017 Historian According to legend,...