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 ...

Anyone expecting the Baltimore Museum of Art’s groundbreaking survey of European women artists from 1400-1800 to simply ascend a group of overlooked female painters to a heightened status equal that ...

A revamping of the display of some 19th and 20th-century European art is intended to encourage visitors to explore issues of race and gender. By Farah Nayeri Museums periodically revamp displays of ...

Quentin Massys, "Ill-Matched Lovers" (c. 1520–25), oil on panel (image public domain/CC0 via the National Gallery of Art) The years before Michelangelo’s death were some of his most productive and ...

As I first stepped into the European Art pavilion, I found myself surrounded by color: maroon, gold, and blue hues covered the walls as ceramics, paintings, and prints from diverse eras, artists, and ...

Cultural relativism, the realization that diverse cultures have different, incommensurable aesthetic standards, anticipated by Montaigne and Machiavelli, was the discovery of the Neapolitan ...

For centuries, Renaissance art history was an exclusive gentlemen’s club with genius men, dramatic patrons, and women mostly ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...