Robert Fludd’s black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, from his Utriusque Cosmi(1617) — Wellcome...
History
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Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Sharon Nell Dewitte (left) and Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski (right) Dewitte: Associate...
1 – Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Art 1.1 – Overview Ancient Egyptian art includes the painting, sculpture,...
Initial P: Alexander the Great Carried Aloft by Griffins, about 1300, unknown artist, in the Historia Scholastica. The J....
Detail from the Mandala of Jnanadakini, 14th century, Tibet. / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By...
By John Hicks / 07.21.2011 Associate Editor Getty Research Institute Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983) was one of the...
Map of the 1858 Atlantic Cable route / Public Domain By Dr. Ana Paula Silva Postdoctoral Researcher...
The Franks Casket / Photo by Simon Ager, British Museum By Dr. Martin Findell and Dr. Lilla...
By Dr. Austin Mason and Dr. Tom Williamson Mason: Assistant Professor of History, Carleton College Williamson:...
Trapped by the Cold War and scarred after a failed revolution, Hungary fought one of its greatest...
A page from the journal of Henry Walsh Mahon showing the effects of scurvy, from his time...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.14.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Forms of Government Forms of government...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.17.2018 Historian Breminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – The First American Government 1.1...
A family visiting the Getty Villa explores ancient art, history, and mythology through frescoes from the ancient...
Santa Maria Antiqua Sarcophagus (Sarcophagus with philosopher, orant, and Old and New Testament scenes), c. 270 C.E.,...
The last two centuries have seen a titanic struggle between secular and ecclesiastical powers for control of...
Woodcut in Divina proportione, 1509, Luca Pacioli. The Getty Research Institute, 84-B9582. See full digitized book A look at...
Photo by Flickr user Abhi Sharma, Creative Commons By Dr. Ernst Fischer / 12.03.2010 Department of Book...
Immigrant expertise, widespread literacy, commercial power, and limited central control transformed the Dutch Republic into seventeenth-century Europe’s...
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate 1 – Early Inhabitants of the Americas 1.1 – Migration to North...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.16.2018HistorianBrewminate Editor-in-Chief Introduction to Ancient Egypt The Rise of Egyptian Civilization...
The Pyrenees as seen from orbit / NASA, Public Domain By Dr. Frank Uekötter / 05.03.2012 Reader in...
By Dr. Chris Hilton / 11.30.2016 Former Senior Archivist Wellcome Library Eighty years ago, on 30 November 1936, a...
A floor mosaic from Pompeii depicting a guard dog. (1st century CE) / Wikimedia Commons Dogs have been a part of...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.15.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Introduction to Language 1.2 –...
Gate of the Lions entrance to Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze...
German journalist and novelist Theodor Fontane. Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Petra S. McGillen / 04.,05.2017 Assistant Professor of...
The trail of the Centenary Walk in Epping Forest, south of High Beach, Essex – England / Photo...
Dentist (detail), 1659–81, Jan van der Bruggen. Engraving, 26.6 x 18.7 cm. Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The exploding...
By Dr. Marcel Nieden / 07.27.2012 Professor of Protestant and Historical Theology Universität Duisburg-Essen Introduction Based on...