This is probably the best expression of of Pizan’s views of contemporary medieval women. The Woman Question...
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The temples at Khajuraho, including the Lakshmana temple, have become famous for their amorous images. Ideal Female...
Meet the printmaker and activist, whose images of loss, injustice, and poverty resonate today. By Christina Aube...
The pagans paved the way for our modern festivities. Introduction The idea of hanging up decorations in...
Australia’s under appreciated colonial art is a window to the past that can help us understand the...
Bronze bells were first made in Korea in the Bronze Age. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The metalworkers...
Othello shows us the cosmopolitan nature of renaissance Venice. Of all Shakespeare’s plays, it is Othello which...
The sculpture was recovered at the House of the Eagles, the meeting place of eagle and jaguar...
Art nouveau was the modern art movement that America almost entirely missed. Art nouveau was the modern art...
The map had much to say about the intellectual rapport between cartographers and navigators in the fifteenth...
Zvartnots Cathedral was constructed at a time of much chaos in Near East. Introduction The ruins of...
Works by artists like Velasco, Troya, Chartrand, and Oller offer an alternative to depictions by foreign artists....
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction For the Incas finely worked and highly decorative textiles came to symbolize both...
In the sixteenth century, cities were considered to embody an ideal of sophisticated and refined living. The...
In the manuscript, each of Khufu’s sons speaks in turn, telling their own tale for their father’s...
People in Arctic and Northwest Coast communities are uncovering the therapeutic history of tattoos. By Joshua Rapp...
People have long made their skin into canvases that convey rich personal, spiritual, or ritual meanings in...
From gift-bestowing sparrows and peach-born heroes to goblin spiders and dancing phantom cats — in a series...
Examining Dadd’s most famous painting The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke. This article, Richard Dadd’s ‘Fairy Feller’ Master-Stroke, was...
Traditional tile art tells the stories of Portugal’s proud seafaring history. By Kim MartinsHistorian Introduction Glazed blue...
Lisbon was the capital of the Portuguese Empire, a nation of explorers, seafarers and conquerors. By Wanda...
Today the Paris Catacombs are illuminated by electric lights and friendly guides. But when Félix Nadar descended...
Images of witches and witchcraft offer a glimpse into the fears and superstitions of the past. Many...
Art history students offer a bite-sized introduction to the bestiary of the European Middle Ages. Introduction The...
Medieval books of beasts reflect the attitudes of the people who made them—including antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, and...
Two curators this unique medieval book and its long influence. Introduction The bestiary—the medieval book of beasts—was...
Today’s beds are thought of as bastions of privacy. But not long ago, they were the perches...
The ancients were just as keen as anyone to improve their appearance as quickly and as easily...
We can see how the world once was and glimpse now lost landscapes, flora and fauna. By...
Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508-12, fresco (Vatican, Rome) Michelangelo began to work on the frescoes...