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 ...

From René Magritte's most paradoxical painting to a totally meowvelous cat masterpiece, our favorite 2025 art history deep dives. My Wife’s Lovers by Carl Kahler is arguably the greatest painting of ...

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 ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

What a ruckus! What panic! And why not? Until the appearance of photography, painters had nearly a monopoly on artistic representation. Their craft was regarded as the primary means to concoct images.

To understand the history of Venice, you need to know that there were three ways in which saints and other holy figures were presented in the churches. There were relics, bodily remains or objects ...

Through history and across cultures, bugs have inspired artists and challenged viewers to shift their perspective Art Meets Science Greg Miller, Knowable Magazine Insects become part of beautiful ...

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 ...

The B.A. in Visual Arts - Art History Track offers students a course of study that will open up a broad and sophisticated window into the history of art. Closely linked to the museum studies minor ...