In the 19th and early 20th centuries, illustrated maps and advertisements functioned as powerful enticements to attract new ...

Scholar Larry Silver sheds light on depictions of old age in Greek, Biblical, and European art history, but misses a deeper exploration. Quentin Massys, "Ill-Matched Lovers" (c. 1520–25), oil on panel ...

Nothing like a few aliens to spice up the history of Western art. Breda O’Donoghue takes classic art by famous Western artists like Michelangelo (above), Matisse and Frida Kahlo, replaces some of the ...

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The museum formerly known as the Desert Caballeros Western Museum received a generous $20 million donation. Here's what they're doing with it.

FA 30a History of Western Art I: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages [ ca ] Open to all students; first-year students and sophomores are encouraged to enroll. Surveys the artistic and architectural ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a ...

On paper, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s show of seven paintings by the Italian Renaissance great Titian might sound a modest affair, but make no mistake: “Titian: Women, Myth & Power” is a not ...

Think Western art and you think cowboys on horseback amidst landscapes of big sky, endless grasslands and the grandest of mountain ranges. Native Americans as they were, pre-westward expansion and ...

Enrollment has swelled for Yale University's introductory art history course, which covers "the Renaissance to the present." That's because the school plans to eliminate the popular class after the ...