Art History

The history of art refers to the history of the visual arts including painting, sculpture and architecture. Considered encyclopedically, the history of art is an attempt to survey art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods by their distinguishing features. This is undertaken by people and institutions with diverging goals, but whose efforts interrelate, including: academic art historians, museum curators, auction house personnel, private collectors, and religious adherents. Given these agendas, it is unsurprising that there are many ways of structuring a history of art, as ...more

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Mona's Eyes
The Artist
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Perspective(s)
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
The Keeper of Lost Art
The Tiffany Girls
Costanza
Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
The Painter's Daughters
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
The Secret Painter
The Story of Art
Ways of Seeing
Art Through the Ages
The Lives of the Artists
Girl with a Pearl Earring
History of Beauty
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
History of Art
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
The Story of Art Without Men
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyThe Rape of Europa by Lynn H. NicholasCivil War St. Louis by Louis S. GerteisMetropolis and Hinterland by Neville MorleyNever Call Retreat by Bruce Catton
Serious History Books
37 books — 9 voters
The Story of Art by E.H. GombrichThe Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van GoghThe Shock of the New by Robert HughesThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving StoneThe Judgment of Paris by Ross King
Best Art and Art History Books
799 books — 314 voters

Early Netherlandish Painting by Erwin PanofskyThe Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. KraussPrinciples of Art History by Heinrich WölfflinCézanne by Roger Eliot FryThe Nude by Kenneth M. Clark
The Books that Shaped Art History
17 books — 6 voters
The Cloisters by Peter BarnetEarly Medieval Architecture by Roger StalleyCathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances GiesUniverse of Stone by Philip BallMedieval Architecture by Nicola Coldstream
Medieval Architecture (nonfiction)
89 books — 19 voters


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