Records of the Parisian gallery Tedesco frères tell a story of commercial success. By Dr. Isabella Zuralski-YeagerSpecial...
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A Getty conservator discusses how she protects a rare and important photograph. In late August 1850, Cazenovia,...
The manuscript was produced around 512 C.E. for the imperial princess Anicia Juliana in Constantinople. By Dr....
Why were such lavish portraits of nuns created on the occasion of their profession, and who were...
The theme of protection of Christians and the Christian faith was common in the Spanish viceroyalties of...
Amiens Cathedral provides a window into the practice and culture of religious belief of the Middle Ages....
Although today Atkins’s prints are sold and viewed as art, they were originally made as botanical illustrations....
How Gilda Darthy’s bed tells a story about writing women back into history. By Amanda BermanCuratorial Assistant,...
The tombs were found almost completely undisturbed. A Golden Discovery In 1987, Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva received...
The technology of printing had advanced rapidly as it became available to commercial publishers in the seventeenth...
The Western fascination with Japanese art directly followed earlier European fashions for Chinese and Middle Eastern decorative...
The evidence we have suggests that the first settlers on Malta were a community of farmers. By...
Neolithic people did not write. However, because they lived in settled communities, they left many traces. By...
A fearsome predator? A fragile icon of impending extinction? What these arctic giants have stood for in...
This 1848 map proved more useful in Congress for its statistical data than for its colorful depiction...
Communicating the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean. By Paula Gaither, Elisa McAtee, Kenneth Lapatin, and David Saunders...
What is iconography? And how do you use the iconographic method to analyze art? How to Do...
Heads are a frequent motif appearing in all phases of Paracas art, and severed human heads have...
The Babylon ruins, once the capital of Nebuchadnezzar’s empire, are among some of the world’s oldest and...
Cameras played a critical role in the quest for social equality for Black Americans in the post-slavery...
The Byzantines began creating portable mosaic icons by setting small tesserae into wax or resin on wood...
These mosaics illustrate the ways Hagia Sophia became entangled in and responded to theological controversies and more....
Of all the causes to which Galileo’s image has been applied, freedom of thought and expression is...
This quadrivium miniature has often been cited as evidence for the prescience of the Carolingian educational reforms....
The Byzantines also created art and architecture with no religious imagery and without explicit religious functions in...
The sixteen murals displayed within depict the life and traditions of the Kiowa people, a Plains Indian...
They were not seen by anyone except at the burial ceremony or perhaps briefly when another family...
There is a vibrancy in Minoan art which was not present in the contemporary East. Introduction The...
We see an artist attempting to represent the diverse ethnic makeup of the Spanish viceroyalty of New...
The complex served as the major cult center dedicated to the enigmatic saintly figure Liu Benzun. Introduction...