Art History

This catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the V&A's National Art Library provides a history of an art form over eight centuries. It document...

At a hinge-point in his life, artist and ex-gallerist Tony Oliver travelled to the East Kimberley, where he plunged into the crosscurrents and eddi...

What began as an effort to prevent the neglect and potential loss of hundreds of African objects at the University of Texas at Austin has evolved i...

Religion has always been a fundamental force for constructing identity, from antiquity to the contemporary world. The transformation of ancient cul...

This monumental work provides a comprehensive analytical history of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Early Abbasid mosaics in the Ho...

Giovanni Morelli changed the way we look at art. Before Morelli (1816-1891), the attribution of a painting to a particular artist or school was o...

The Wilshere Collection offers a remarkable insight into one Englishman's enthusiasm for the early Christian church. A wealthy landowner travelling...

In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (19031983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (18651959) met in Italy. From that mo...

In Imperial Romance, Su Yun Kim argues that the idea of colonial intimacy within the Japanese empire of the early twentieth century had a far broad...

What is quilling paper? Quilling paper is usually thought as colored paper, and indeed it is. However, not all types of paper are suitable for quil...

A highly illustrated journey through Hogarth's series paintings and engravings, from the blockbuster Rake's Progress and Marriage a la Mode to the ...

An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, China has mai...

Washington, D.C. Then and Now presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution and history of America's capital city since the dawn of photography ...

In the summer of 2017 the editors led a series of weekly workshops at London's Tate Modern looking at the relationship between walking, art, experi...

Born in Bern, Switzerland in 1933, Harald Szeemann was a crucial force in identifying, exhibiting, and writing about the important new movements in...

A revolution in culture took place in the fervid atmosphere of the decade preceding the Russian revolution of 1917. Russian artists, writers, and t...

Dedicated to the entire history of feminist artworks on an international scale, this comprehensive survey traces the ways in which feminists have s...