Exploring the science and stories behind the pigments, from the red ochre of Lascaux’s prehistoric cave to...
Art History
In modern society, we are used to political art. One hundred years ago today, fighting raged in...
One of the great riddles of modern times is why a 500-year portrait of a Florentine housewife...
Scientific analysis of four rare sculptures of mourning women furthers understanding of South Italian funerary art. Introduction...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is the first monument to commemorate the over 4,000 African...
With its novel vignettes and its use of a camera obscura in the production of the plates,...
A charming watercolor provides insight into the French artist’s private world. A tiny treasure by Édouard Manet...
While contemporary laser removal techniques are only around forty years old, efforts to erase or rewrite tattoos...
The tools, called “bone combs,” resemble hair combs with their grooved edges. By Amy Held Tattooing goes...
She wears a white satin dress, pearls and a ruby ring and has a slight smile —...
The architecture of ancient Korea is epitomized by the artful combination of wood and stone. By Mark...
This practice began earlier with the Ancient Romans, who wrote (literally scratched on letters) on wax-coated tablets,...
The Arch is a huge conglomerate of imperial Roman sculpture as many parts of it were recycled...
The pottery of ancient Korea stretches back to prehistory when simple brown wares were made and decorated...
Study and treatment of a Renaissance altarpiece reveals new details about the artist’s working method, as well...
The history of the picture title is really a history of the last 300 years. I have...
One of the most common mediums for political art has long been poster making. One of the...
The holistic nature of cultural history approach makes us consider all factors that may have contributed to...
It has fallen on textile conservators to keep historic textiles preserved, and a surprising amount of science...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company’s curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat...
Fay Chong and Andrew Chinn were Asian American artists who made major contributions to the two most...
Viking Age Scandinavians almost exclusively made applied art – aesthetically appealing and useful. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction...
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of...
A new study posits the woman was licking brushes covered with pigments of lapis lazuli, a rare...
One modern Mexican artist is making souvenirs that shed light on the ancient peoples of this city...
Thousands of images from the Pierre de Gigord Collection are now accessible online. By Isotta PoggiDepartment of...
Sara’s images defined the Soviet Union at its ‘base line’. What was life like in early Soviet...
Humans have crafted garments for more than 40,000 years—and prehistoric tools suggest that warmth wasn’t their only...
Westerners were a feature of late-19th-century China, albeit a much smaller presence than Thomson would have us...
Thomson’s photographic medium possessed qualities that draw the attention of viewers and lay claim to a degree...