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
An Eye for Color by Natasha WingMe, Frida by Amy NoveskyMr. Cornell's Dream Boxes by Jeanette WinterFabulous by Bonnie ChristensenThrough Georgia's Eyes by Rachel Victoria Rodriguez
SFMOMA Art Express
9 books — 2 voters
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Renaissance Club by Rachel DacusA Light of Her Own by Carrie CallaghanDear Theo by Vincent van GoghI Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira
Great books about art
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Patrick Bringley
Artists create records of transitory moments, appearing to stop their clocks. They help us believe that some things aren’t transitory at all but rather remain beautiful, true, majestic, sad, or joyful over many lifetimes—and here is the proof, painted in pole, carved in marble, stitched into quilts.
Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Wendy Beckett
Eccentric and secret genius that he was, Bosch not only moved the heart, but scandalized it into full awareness. The sinister and monstrous things that he brought forth are the hidden creatures of our inward self-love: he externalizes the ugliness within, and so his misshapen demons have an effect beyond curiosity. We feel a hateful kinship with them. The Ship of Fools is not about other people. It is about us.
Wendy Beckett, The Story of Painting

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