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
Perspective(s)
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
The Tiffany Girls
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
The Last Mona Lisa
The Keeper of Lost Art
The Secret Painter
The Painter's Daughters
The Story of Art
Ways of Seeing
Art Through the Ages
The Lives of the Artists
Girl with a Pearl Earring
History of Beauty
History of Art
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsThe Four Books of Architecture by Andrea PalladioGraphic Design by Ellen LuptonNeon Spectacular by Kody ShaferA Pattern Language by Christopher W. Alexander
Design Library
35 books — 4 voters
Color by Victoria FinlayInteraction of Color by Josef AlbersThe Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. ClairMauve by Simon GarfieldBlue by Michel Pastoureau
The History of Colors
68 books — 35 voters

The Art Nouveau Coloring Book by Hello CharlieArt Nouveau, 1890-1914 by Paul GreenhalghAlphonse Mucha by Victor ArwasAlphonse Mucha by Ronald F. LippArt Nouveau by Gabriele Fahr-Becker
Art Nouveau
69 books — 7 voters
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda NochlinThe Lives of the Artists by Giorgio VasariIntroductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelReflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and S... by Johann Joachim WinckelmannThe Politics of Vision by Linda Nochlin
Foundations of Art History
38 books — 6 voters


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Erwin Panofsky
But what is the use of the humanities as such? Admittedly they are not practical, and admittedly they concern themselves with the past. Why, it may be asked, should we engage in impractical investigations, and why should we be interested in the past? The answer to the first question is: because we are interested in reality. Both the humanities and the natural sciences, as well as mathematics and philosophy, have the impractical outlook of what the ancients called vita contemplativa as opposed ...more
Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts

The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda carried little weight with an idle aristocracy.
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