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Iconography in the Western World
Colum Hourihane
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Iconography in the Western WorldIntroductionIconography is the description, classification, and interpretation of the subject matter of a work of art....
Installation Art
Julie Reiss
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Installation ArtIntroduction“Installation art” is a term applied to room-sized works of art that are large enough for the viewer to enter. While the t...
Islamic Art and Architecture in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula
Jonathan Bloom
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Islamic Art and Architecture in North Africa and the Iberian PeninsulaIntroductionThis article deals with the literature on architecture and art (but ...
Japanese Architecture
Ken Tadashi Oshima
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Japanese ArchitectureIntroductionJapanese architecture has long had varying expressions and historical interpretations both inside and outside the geo...
Japanese Buddhist Sculpture
Sherry Fowler, Yui Suzuki
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Japanese Buddhist SculptureIntroductionThe official history of Japanese Buddhist sculpture purportedly begins when emissaries from the Korean kingdom ...
Japanese Ceramics
Richard L. Wilson
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Japanese CeramicsIntroductionFrom its inception in the late 19th century up to the 1970s, modern scholarship in Japanese ceramics was largely bifurcat...
Japanese Literati Painting and Calligraphy
Patricia J. Graham, Frank L. Chance
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Japanese Literati Painting and CalligraphyIntroductionLiterati painting in Japan is generally referred to as Bunjinga (literati painting; Ch. Wen ren ...
Jewish Art, Ancient
Mati Meyer
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Jewish Art, AncientIntroductionThe present article considers the visual material of the Jewish world from biblical times through the early Byzantine e...
Jewish Art, Medieval to Early Modern
Katrin Kogman-Appel
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Jewish Art, Medieval to Early ModernIntroductionThe first work of Jewish art to attract scholarly attention toward the end of the nineteenth century w...
Jewish Art, Modern and Contemporary
Maya Balakirsky Katz
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Jewish Art, Modern and ContemporaryIntroductionThis article takes a minimalist approach to the designation of “Jewish” in the category of “Jewish art,...
Jones, Inigo
Vaughan Hart
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Inigo JonesIntroductionInigo Jones (b. 1573–d. 1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England’s most important architect. He was also the single-mo...
Kahlo, Frida
Adriana Zavala
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Frida KahloIntroductionAlthough Frida Kahlo (b. 1907–d. 1954) is one of the world’s most widely recognized artists, that attention is often focused mo...
Katsushika Hokusai
Matthi Forrer
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2020-11-24
Katsushika HokusaiIntroductionWhile the best-known Japanese artwork is the iconic “Great Wave,” less known is that this was a creation of the artist H...
Lastman, Pieter
Amy Golahny
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Pieter LastmanIntroductionAn Amsterdam painter of historical, religious, and mythological subjects, Pieter Pietersz. Lastman (b. 1583–d. 1633) is now ...
Leonardo da Vinci
Frank Zöllner, Sara Taglialagamba
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Leonardo da Vinci Introduction Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452–d. 1519) ranks alongside Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian as one of the most import...
Luca della Robbia (or the Della Robbia Family)
Catherine Kupiec
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Luca della Robbia (or the Della Robbia Family)IntroductionFlorentine sculptor Luca della Robbia (b. 1399/1400–d. 1482) is best remembered as the inven...
Luisa Roldán
Cathy Hall-van den Elsen
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2020-08-26
Luisa RoldánIntroductionLuisa Roldán (b. 1652–d. 1706) lived and worked in three Spanish cities, was sculptor to the royal chambers of Kings Carlos II...
Māori Art and Architecture
Ngarino Ellis
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Māori Art and ArchitectureIntroductionMaori art history originates in Te Po/The Darkness when the parents Ranginui/Sky Father and Papatūānuku/Earth Mo...
Markets and Auctions, Art
Noah Horowitz
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Art Markets and Auctions Introduction This article surveys the growing body of literature covering the international art market. Though discus...
Marxism and Art
Andrew Hemingway
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Marxism and Art Introduction Marxism combines a theory of history with a philosophical worldview that aims to transcend the contemplative post...
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