The art histories of Central and Eastern Europe are interlaced with dissonant voices, conflicting tendencies and rival proclamations that derive their distinctiveness from exceptional local conditions. This observation is tempered when the lens is finetuned to particular artworks and singular art practices, or the focus of inquiry widened to reveal a web of connecting threads
Overview Overview Discover the essentials of European art history from 1350-1850 in these six lavishly-produced lessons. Over six weeks, the course will take you from the Early Renaissance in Italy through to Romanticism in Britain, introducing you to the artists we call the great masters. By looking in detail at the principal works of
Exterior Panorama, Metropolitan Museum of Art (photo by Michael Gray, via Michael Gray’s Flickrstream) Our encyclopedic museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art are vocally committing themselves to diversity and inclusion, and enacting major changes to the way they tell the story of world art. In many ways, however, Europe is still firmly fixed at
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (French [born Switzerland], 1859–1923). Mobilization, or La Marseillaise, 1915. Etching, sheet: 25 11/16 x 19 11/16 in. (65.2 x 50 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924 (24.58.31) «Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, World War I and the Visual Arts features more than
The German artist’s work, finally on show in London, is an uprooted reunion of everything strange in the supposedly familiar tale of western art history Die Forderung (2016), Neo Rauch. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London Earlier this year I visited ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands to see the town’s landmark exhibition about its most famous resident
By Greg Bradsher NARA’s Assistant Chief, Archives II Texual Reference BranchThe Record, November 1997 During and after World War II the United States Government, in part, through the Safehaven Program to identify, recover, and restitute Nazi looted assets, expended considerable resources on the looted art issue. It was a big issue, given the fact that
Caldwell, N.J. – Caldwell University is pleased to announce that Art History Professor Jennifer Noonan is one of a select group of faculty members nationwide chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) to participate in a special week-long seminar on Teaching Pre-Modern European Art in Context. The seminar on “Sight and Sound in Renaissance
Photo: Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art/Rogers Fund How many New Yorkers have a recurring dream of discovering an extra room in their apartments? The Met has dreamed that dream and made it come true. In effect, it has discovered 45 new rooms in its already magnificent house. The museum has rethought and reordered its