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 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
The Book of Kells by Bernard MeehanEarly Medieval Art by John BeckwithArt Through the Ages by Fred S. KleinerArt and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto EcoThe Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial by Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Medieval Art (nonfiction)
133 books — 32 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantThe Passion of Artemisia by Susan VreelandGirl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan VreelandLeonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
Art History Fiction
60 books — 28 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
A History of Japanese Art by Noritake TsudaRyukyu - Okinawa Impressionism by Rob KajiwaraWave and Ripple Design Book by Satoshi NakamotoNeon Spectacular by Kody Shafer77 Dances by Stephen Addiss
Japanese Visual Arts
54 books — 5 voters


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