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Rembrandt van Rijn
Catherine Scallen, Amy Frederick
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Rembrandt van RijnIntroductionRembrandt van Rijn (b. 1606–d. 1669) is an artist as renowned today as in his own era. As a self-taught etcher, he was a...
Renaissance and Renascences
Brian A. Curran
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Renaissance and Renascences Introduction This article is directed to the much-debated theme of “Renaissance and Renascences,” a concept define...
Renaissance Art and Architecture in Spain
Pedro Antonio Galera Andreu
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Renaissance Art and Architecture in SpainIntroductionConsidering all the historical periods of art in Spain, the Renaissance may be one of the most di...
Rivera, Diego
Linda Downs, James Oles
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Diego RiveraIntroductionDiego Rivera (b. 1886–d. 1957) was a leading modern Mexican artist who was internationally acclaimed as one of the founders of...
Rodin, Auguste
Bernard Barryte, Anna Tahinci
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Auguste RodinIntroductionProlific, inventive, and influential, Auguste Rodin (b. 12 November 1840–d. 17 November 1917) outlived the controversies prov...
Roman Art
Michael Squire, Katharina Lorenz
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Roman Art Introduction “Roman art” is an inherently loose term. At its most basic level, the category refers to the visual culture produced in...
Romanesque
Kirk Ambrose
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Romanesque Introduction Coined at the turn of the 19th century to signal a perceived Roman aspect to architecture of the 11th and 12th centuri...
Romanticism
Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
RomanticismIntroductionRomanticism is a European-born cultural movement whose precise national, geographic, and chronological boundaries, as well as p...
Science and Conteporary Art
Cristina Albu
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Science and Contemporary ArtIntroductionWhile the dialogue between art and science has developed quite steadily since the post–Second World War period...
Sculpture: Method, Practice, Theory
Martina Droth
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Sculpture: Method, Practice, TheoryIntroductionWhat is sculpture? There is little consensus on how to answer this question. On the one hand, sculpture...
South Asia and Allied Textile Traditions, Wall Painting of
Anna Seastrand
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Wall Painting of South Asia and Allied Textile TraditionsIntroductionThe diverse traditions of wall painting in South Asia span the full extent of the...
South Asia, Modern and Contemporary Art of
Atreyee Gupta, Tausif Noor
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Modern and Contemporary Art of South AsiaIntroductionScholarship on modern and contemporary art has emerged as a significant subfield within the large...
South Asia, Photography in
Christopher Pinney
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Photography in South Asia Introduction A century and half on, the study of photography in South Asia remains in its infancy. Photography reach...
South Asian Architecture and Sculpture, 13th to 18th Centuries
Catherine Asher
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
South Asian Architecture and Sculpture, 13th to 18th Century Introduction By the 13th century, the South Asian subcontinent was populated by d...
South Asian Art, Historiography of
Frederick Asher
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Historiography of South Asian Art Introduction Art has been produced in South Asia for approximately forty-five hundred years. Art history, ho...
The Art of Medieval Sicily and Southern Italy through the Reign of Frederick II (d. 1250)
William Tronzo
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
The Art of Medieval Sicily and Southern Italy through the Reign of Frederick II (d. 1250)IntroductionThe modern art historical field of Southern Itali...
The Art of Southern Italy and Sicily under Angevin and Catalan–Aragonese Rule
Xavier Barral i Altet, Vinni Lucherini
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
The Art of Southern Italy and Sicily under Angevin and Catalan–Aragonese RuleIntroductionWith the expression “southern Italy and Sicily under Angevin ...
Theory in Europe to 1800, Art
Robert Williams
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Art Theory in Europe to 1800IntroductionUnderstood in the most broadly inclusive sense, the term “art theory” indicates any serious thought about the ...
Timurid Art and Architecture
David J. Roxburgh
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Timurid Art and Architecture Introduction The Timurid dynasty (1370–1506) emerged from the confederation of nomadic tribes making up the Ulus ...
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Kathleen Nicholson
Subject: Art History »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Joseph Mallord William TurnerIntroductionJoseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) is the most renowned British painter of the first half of the 19th ...
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