The altar tabernacle of the Pauline Chapel at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome repackages a medieval icon and turns it into a dazzling Baroque trophy.
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The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania.
Colony of Augusta Emerita, Mérida
If visitors know one thing about Barcelona before boarding a plane, it is the surname of the city’s most celebrated architect, Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí, Park Güell
In Rome, murals were harnessed to the political agenda of 1930s Fascism, a one-party state led by an authoritarian ruler.
Murals and Public Art in 1930s Rome
In picturing Sarah Siddons as the Muse of Tragedy, Sir Joshua Reynolds helped make an argument for women’s equal standing with that of men within the acting profession.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Siddons as the ...
The Edo period saw an intensified circulation of visual vocabulary and aesthetic principles between mediums (paintings, ceramics, lacquerware, and textiles often shared the similar motifs) and crossing different registers of culture from design to popular culture to nostalgia for a romanticized pre-modern past.
Edo period, an introduction
A world art syllabus that spans c. 15th century to the present
World Art History, c. 15th century to ...
More than tombs? Scholars once thought Petra was only a large necropolis, but archaeology shows it was much more.
Petra: rock-cut façades
Alternative art spaces created new paths and possibilities for art in the wake of modernism.
Alternative art spaces in New York City
German architecture in the 18th century refashioned the imported French Rococo and Italian Baroque styles to create something distinct.
Architecture in 18th-century Germany
Beginning in 1973, Self Help Graphics and Art helped to redeploy the Mexican Día de Muertos for their neighborhoods in East Los Angeles to help the a Chicana/o and broader Latinx communities in the city.
Self Help Graphics and Art
The building technique chosen for a given project can help archaeologists and art historians to understand scale, scope, expense, and technique, alongside other, more aesthetic considerations.
Italo-Roman building techniques
The forgotten abattoir
Ruin as abattoir, the Colosseum
Gladiators, animal hunts, and executions: learn about the Colosseum, a monumental gift to the Roman people.
The Colosseum
The painting mocks humanity, as well as human beliefs and institutions, both civic and religious.
James Ensor, Christ’s Entry into Brussels in ...
Through their many forms of artistic production the Nabis expanded art into all areas of life.
The Nabis and Decorative Art
This mask is a rare document of the Dada movement and an embodiment of the so-called “approximate man.”
Dada’s “Approximate Man”: A Portrait of Tristan ...
Photographs were used by the Surrealists to call into question the nature of reality.
Surrealist Photography
Over the past 250 years, the American colonies have transitioned from being mere holdings of European superpowers, to being perhaps the most preeminent superpower of our own day.
America in the World
Purism replaced what they described as Cubism’s decorative, vague, and contingent forms with mathematically-designed compositions of perfected ideal forms.
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