Smarthistory

Trickster Coyotes, the art of Harry Fonseca

Pride and anxiety in New Spain: Francisco Clapera, set of sixteen Casta paintings, c. 1775

Gloucester Cathedral

Lindau Gospels cover

The long history of Stone Mountain, Georgia

Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series

The Lindisfarne Gospels

Aztec warriors and gods in the House of the Eagles

Vermeer, The Glass of Wine

Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II

Charlemagne and the Carolingian revival

Sheltered by the sea, Barbara Hepworth’s Pelagos

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

The Sun Stone (The Calendar Stone)

Finding meaning in abstraction

Woven cultures, the complex history of an Ottoman carpet

Willem de Kooning, Woman, I

A beacon of hope, Aaron Douglass Aspiration

Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The stories totem poles tell

Seneca Village: African Americans in early New York

Quarrying and carving marble

At the edge of the world, Skellig Michael

To feed the dead, design elegance in Neolithic China

Ribera, Martyrdom of Saint Philip

Bernini, Bust of Medusa

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

The Unicorn Tapestries

A shimmering Icon in Venice

Titian, Assumption of the Virgin

Mesa Verde and the preservation of Ancestral Puebloan heritage

Quiet violence, Artemisia Gentileschis Judith

Defeated, heroized, dismantled: Richmonds Robert E. Lee Monument

Earning a living on the Grand Canal: Wang Shishen’s garden scenes

Marcel Duchamp, The Large Glass

Art historical analysis (painting), a basic introduction using Goyas Third of May, 1808

Palmyra: the modern destruction of an ancient city

Reims Cathedral

Cellini, Perseus

Pablo Picasso and the new language of Cubism

Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin, Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)

Renoir, The Large Bathers

Wren, Saint Pauls Cathedral

Global trade and an 18th-century Anishinaabe outfit

The Mesoamerican Ballgame and a Classic Veracruz yoke

What work of art inspired you?

Brunelleschi, Dome of the Cathedral of Florence.

Theotokos mosaic, apse, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

A throne for Saint Peter — Berninis Cathedra Petri

Collecting near and far, Rembrandts Abraham Francen

Gothic architecture explained