Up close, Westminster Abbey’s fabled floor boasts intricate patterning and psychedelic alternations of colours.
Articles on Art history
Displaying 41 - 60 of 175 articles
Surreal Spaces paints a portrait of fragility and strength, passion and determination.
An unusual and magnificent exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria allows us to see Bonnard like never before.
The genre – also known as ‘folk art’ or ‘outsider art’ – serves as a reminder that art is a universal human pursuit.
Popes wear white to represent Christlike purity and red to symbolise compassion.
An art historian explains how Vincent van Gogh went from an unknown painter to one of the world’s most expensive artists.
Historic paintings can be just as valuable as educational tools as videos created using the latest technologies.
What will happen to this villa and its unique collection of 16th- and 17th-century ceiling paintings?
Historically, baldness was treated with neutrality, as a regular part of daily life. Ancient Egyptians had different balding hairstyles
Sexuality in Ancient Rome was more preoccupied with power dynamics than it was with gender – as an expert in visual cultures of sexuality explains.
An art historian describes the two historical representations of Prophet Muhammad that led to a controversy at Hamline University.
Despite her extensive and versatile oeuvre, Blankenhorn has received limited attention from the art world.
Americans of all stripes have long embraced the culture of the ancient Mediterranean, using ancient ideals to navigate a new world.
In 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson slashed a painting London’s National Gallery to attract publicity to Emmeline Pankhurst’s imprisonment.
This artwork tells the incredible story of the Indigenous Traditional Owners who have long called the Tanami home.
Katy Hessel’s ambitious, weighty corrective to an art history canon that sidelines (or erases) women is ‘impressive and overdue’, writes Edwina Preston.
The baby drop box is a revival of centuries-old cultural practices from the Italian Renaissance when reproductive rights were zero.
Western fashion, laundering and style reflected the racialized politics dramatically shaped by profound global transformations bound up with slavery, colonialism and modernization.
There is still much to do to overcome the damage done by the myth of women-free art history that existed for the entire 20th century.
Hammamet with Its Mosque, a little picture with a monumental impact, belies a complex history of cross-cultural encounter.
Top contributors
-
Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
-
Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
-
Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
-
Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
-
Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
-
Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
-
Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
-
PhD Candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor in Art, Curtin University
-
Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
-
Master of Art in Gallery and Museum Management Program Director, Western Colorado University
-
Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences, University College Dublin
-
Associate Director Student Experience, Monash University
-
Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
-
Personal Chair of 19th-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh