What can molecular biology majors learn from Manet? Can Cézanne change the way English graduate students and undergraduate engineers approach their fields? While students in both courses examined ...

“Angels Over Manhattan,” 2001-2 (oil on canvas), by Grace Hartigan “Ingres’ Bath,” 1993 (oil on canvas), by Grace Hartigan Grace Hartigan has been “painting art history” throughout her long career. ..

Art historians often begin with a close focus on an individual artifact before setting that object into a history. Earlier, later, latest: that’s the basic historical structure. Giotto was studied by ...

Édouard Vuillard’s Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist (1893) portrays a psychologically intense mother-daughter adult relationship. Vuillard painted his mother more than 500 times and lived ...

Artist Philip Geiger, who taught painting at the University of Virginia for more than 30 years, depicted how things appear to the eye as opposed to reproducing how they appear physically. His ...

Hand stencil in a cave in Indonesia, dated to at least 39,900 years old (photo by Kinza Riza, via Nature.com) New dating of rock art in Indonesia shows that at the same time stampedes of bulls and ...

Canada’s residential schools and America’s Indian boarding schools were tools of genocide. Native children were kidnapped and sent away to “schools” more closely resembling concentration camps.

History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than artistic style. History paintings usually depict a moment in a narrative story, rather than a specific and static ...

From ancient petroglyphs to oil paintings, this large art collection tells the story of the Susquehanna River and its impact ...