Smarthistory

What do we learn by looking at Europe through a global lens?

Tiny timeline: global Europe

What was happening in the world during Michelangelo's lifetime?

Tiny timelines: Michelangelo in context

Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from the “St. Petersburg Album,” 1615-1618, opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper, 18 x 25.3 cm (Freer|Sackler: The Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art)

Across cultures

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Guide to Italian art in the 1300s

Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from the “St. Petersburg Album,” 1615-1618, opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper, 18 x 25.3 cm (Freer|Sackler: The Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art) — Long before our global world, works of art often demonstrate rich interaction across cultures.

Across cultures, an introduction

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Call for Participation

Joaquin Torres García, América Invertida (Inverted America), 1943, ink on paper, 22 x 16 cm (Fundación Torres García, Montevideo) — […]

Latin American and Latinx art

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1647-52 (Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome) — […]

The Global Baroque in 14 works

Giotto, The Ognissanti Madonna (detail)

Seeing Mary in renaissance Italy

Codex-Style Cylinder Vessel with Scribes, 650–800, Guatemala or Mexico, Northern Petén or Southern Campeche, Maya. Ceramic (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.2010.115.562).

Indigenous art of the Americas prior to ...

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Byzantine art, short course

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Gothic Architecture short course

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Islamic art in 10 works of art

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African Art after 1200 in 15 works ...

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Ancient Egypt in 9 works

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Ancient Rome in 12 works of art

14. Statues of Votive Figures — Home to some of the earliest and greatest empires, the Near East is often referred to as the cradle of civilization.

The Ancient Near East in 9 works ...

False, misleading, and unreliable images

The pluralism of American identities

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Architecture terms