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Category : Reframing Art History

The Mass of St. Gregory, 1539, feathers on wood with touches of paint, 26 1/4 x 22 inches / 68 x 56 cm (Musee des Jacobins)

The art of the viceroyalty of New ...

Book of Kells, c. 800, 340 vellum folios, 33.0 x 25.5 cm each (edges trimmed and gilded in the 19th century), MS 58 (Trinity College Library, Dublin)

Permanence, Portability, and Power in the Northern ...

Mummy of Herakleides, 120–140 C.E>, Romano-Egyptian, human and bird remains, linen, pigment, beeswax, and wood (The Getty Villa) — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: The Roman Empire in a ...

Detail, Man's Prestige Cloth, early 20th century, Akan peoples, Asante group, silk and cotton, 289.6 x 172.7 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The arts of Africa, c. 18th–20th century

Aztec

Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, 900–16th century

A winged Lion, symbol of St. Mark, and an angel (detail), Christ in Majesty, fresco, originally in Sant Climent (Saint Clement in Catalan), outside the village of Taüll, Boí valley, Spain, today in MNAC — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: The art of medieval Iberia

Thethana (woman's waist skirt), 20th century Unidentified South Sotho Artist, South African Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, 2014.9.2 — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: Art, Adornment, and Identity in ...

angkor thom grid — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: The art of empires in ...

Left: panel from a Torah Ark door, Ben Ezra Synagogue, Fustat, Egypt, 11th century with later carving and paint, wood (walnut) with traces of paint and gilding, 87.3 x 36.7 x 2.5 cm (The Walters Art Museum and Yeshiva University Museum) — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: Jewish art in Spain, ...

Honoré Daumier, Nadar Elevating Photography to the Height of an Art, 1862. Lithograph from Souvenirs d’Artistes, 44.8 × 30.9 cm (National Gallery of Art) — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: The development of photography and ...

medici porcelain grid — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: Expanding ideas about Renaissance art

Portrait of Sin Sukju, second half of the 15th century, hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 167 x 109.5 cm, Goryeong Sin Family Collection, Cheongwon, Treasure no. 613. — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: Art of the Joseon Dynasty

Icon of the Virgin Hodegetria, embossed silver, 13th century (Ohrid, Icon Gallery) — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: The icon

Exterior side A (detail), Panathenaic prize amphora of a chariot race, 490-80 B.C.E., red-figured cup, attributed to the Foundry Painter, Attica, Greece © The Trustees of the British Museum. — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: The body in the ancient ...

Torah crown (keter), Andrea Zambelli 'L'Honnesta,' ca. 1740-50, Venice, silver, parcel gilt, 27.5 x 31.4 x 31.4 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: Framing Jewish Art

Façade of the ex-convento of Tecali de Herrera, 16th century, Puebla, Mexico — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: Global early modern architecture and ...

Jean le Noir, Bourgot (?), and workshop, Miniature of Christ’s Side Wound and Instruments of the Passion, folio 331r, in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, before 1349 (The Cloisters Collection) — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: Picturing Gender and Sexuality in ...

Left: Male figure, probably one of the king's servants, 12th–14th century, terracotta, 15.5 cm high, Ife, Nigeria (Louvre Museum); center: Fragment of a head, 1100–1500, terracotta, 15.2 x 8.3 x 9.5 cm, Ife, Nigeria (Brooklyn Museum); right: Head, possibly a King, 12th–14th century, terracotta, 26.7 x 14.5 x 18.7 cm (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth) — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: Portraiture in a premodern global ...

Benny Andrews, Flag Day, 1966 — There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Coming Soon: African American art and social ...

The Kaaba, granite masonry, covered with silk curtain and calligraphy in gold and silver-wrapped thread, pre-Islamic monument, rededicated by Muhammad in 631-32 C.E.

Framing Islamic art