Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil” (1785) Oil on panel; 83.2 x 64.8 cm (32 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.) Johannes Vermeer had a serious thing for books. As it turns out, so did Edward ...

What can molecular biology majors learn from Manet? Can Cézanne change the way English graduate students and undergraduate engineers approach their fields? While students in both courses examined ...

Study of the history of art cultivates a deep understanding of humanity’s fundamental impulse to create. The history of art traces how artists across all time periods and geographical regions confront ...

Now we turn to a detective story involving the Dutch masters and white paint. Until the 20th century, one type of white paint made from lead reigned supreme. FRANCESCA CASADIO: There wasn't a painter ...

Art and beer overlap in history and culture. An art historian at the Cleveland Museum of Art shares context and beer.

Art historians often begin with a close focus on an individual artifact before setting that object into a history. Earlier, later, latest: that’s the basic historical structure. Giotto was studied by ...

A review of Art: A New History, by Paul Johnson. The modern sensibility recoils against the “great man” model of history: history as the account of decisive events, shaped by the autonomous actions of ...

Art history is an interdisciplinary major that invites you to study art through the lens that you find most instructive and interesting, whether religious, literary, anthropological, political, ...