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This book contains all of Smarthistory's content for the Ancient Roman art.
Guide to ancient Roman art
This book contains all of Smarthistory's content for Ancient Etruscan art.
Guide to Ancient Etruscan art
South, East, and Southeast Asia, The Pacific, and Global Contemporary
AP® Art History volume 5
Indigenous Americas, Africa, West and Central Asia
AP® Art History volume 4
Later Europe and The Americas
AP® Art History volume 3
What should a peasant painting smell like? Van Gogh has an opinion...
The Potato Eaters
Meet the two women behind this iconic 1936 photograph.
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother
What do a cucumber, a fly, figures in turbans, and ancient reliefs tell us about the Madonna and Child?
Do you speak Renaissance? Carlo Crivelli, Madonna ...
Was the 10th century Chola queen, Sembiyan Mahadevi, so beloved, she was depicted as a goddess?
Queen or goddess?
Alexander, the Mongols, and the great epic of Iran.
Folio from a Shahnama, The Bier of ...
The angry ducks of Bada Shanren.
Bada Shanren, Lotus and Ducks
A red so rare, so impossible to make, the process was lost before the end of the Ming Dynasty.
A Ritual Ming dish
The majesty of Yosemite National Park — with Roger Minick and the woman with the scarf.
Roger Minick, Woman with Scarf at Inspiration ...
Learn about tea-ceremonies, opulent palaces, and splashed-ink paintings from Japan's Kamakura to Azuchi-Momoyama periods.
A brief history of the arts of ...
Learn about Japan's famous haniwa, tales from behind palace walls, and enormous wooden buddhas.
A brief history of the arts of ...
Meet a terra-cotta dog from four thousand years ago, the Kushan emperor Kanishka and visit Hindu sculptures in Madhya Pradesh.
A brief history of the art of ...
In the late sixteenth century, European publications about the Americas had few illustrations, so printmakers felt free to invent imagery about the peoples and lands across the Atlantic.
Johannes Stradanus and Theodoor Galle, “The Discovery ...
The first book ever printed by an American author was Rhetorica Christiana by Diego de Valadés, who was born in Mexico to a Spanish conquistador father and an indigenous mother.
