The Pantheon, Rome, c. 125 By Dr. Paul A. Ranogajec / 12.11.2015 Professor of Art History Brooklyn...
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Voting with psephoi (pebbles) in a scene from the Wine Cup with the Suicide of Ajax (detail), about 490...
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...
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...
As the site of the baptism of Jesus Christ, the Jordan River is the source of all...
Medieval music shaped worship, courtly culture, public ritual, memory, and daily life through chant, song, instruments, and...
Relief panel with The Spoils of Jerusalem Being Brought into Rome, Arch of Titus, Rome, after 81 C.E.,...
Detail, Otto I presenting the Cathedral of Magdeburg, 962–968, Ottonian, from the Cathedral of Magdeburg, probably made in...
Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, England (photo: Steve Cadman) By Valerie Spanswick / 08.08.2015 Freelance Writer, History of Art and Architecture Southwell...
Illustration of a small crowd gathered to watch as Martin Luther directs the posting of his 95...
Across 18th-century Europe, admiration for Britain reshaped politics, literature, philosophy, gardening, travel, and national identity, reaching its...
A photograph of the War Scroll, found in Qumran Cave 1, photographed by Eric Matson of the...
By Dr. Iris Lauterbach / 07.03.2017Professor of HistoryZentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) Abstract The history of landscape design...
By Dr. Jennifer Awes-FreemanVisiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Religious StudiesUniversity of St. Thomas Carolingian Art and...
Apa Abraham, c. 590-600, watercolor on panel, Egyptian (Bode Museum, Berlin) By Dr. Davor Džalto / 08.08.2015...
A teenage Beatrix Potter with her pet mouse Xarifa, 1885, from Cotsen Children’s Library, Department of Rare...
The city of Salamanca. / Photo by Laura Tomàs Avellana, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Thomas Weller...
Knight, Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The “Westminster Psalter”), c. 1200, f. 220 (British Library)...
Artefacts revealed by melting ice patches in the high mountains of Oppland shed new light on ancient...
Forum Boarium in the Imperial Age, Lanciani FUR, tab. XXVIII, detail “A very popular area exists that...
Apollodorus of Damascus, The Forum of Trajan, dedicated 112 C.E., Rome Apollodorus of Damascus, The Markets of...
Pearl Curran in 1919 – St. Louis Post-Dispatch In early 20th-century St. Louis, Pearl Curran claimed to have...
Iranian voters, fed up with politics as usual, have demanded the ouster of both Supreme Leader Ali...
European Calvinism developed powerful models of church discipline through moral oversight and debates over whether church or...
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 assembled the victors of the First World War, i.e. President Woodrow...
Discovered beneath a Suffolk mound in 1939, the Sutton Hoo ship burial preserved dazzling objects that transformed...
The Mildenhall Treasure, fourth century C.E. (The British Museum) (photo: Estel, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Dr. Diane Reilly / 06.14.2017...
The Byzantine Empire near its peak under the Emperor Justinian, c. 550 C.E. By Dr. Ellen A....