The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870-1905
French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been widely and richly studied. But modernism…
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Staff Pick: Reclaiming Magic
This month’s staff pick theme ‘Reclaiming Magic’ was inspired by the 2021 Summer Exhibition opened at the Royal Academy…
Gainsborough in London | The Later Years
Susan Sloman, author of Gainsborough in London, introduces our blog readers to her long-awaited book, which follows the…
Bruno Lohse, Nazi art plunderer – An extract from Goering’s Man in Paris
Jonathan Petropoulos— I remember clearly my first meeting with Bruno Lohse in June 1998 at the Zentralinstitut in…
Association for Art History Annual Conference 2021 | Virtual Stand
Welcome to the Yale University Press “virtual stand” for this year’s new, fully-online Association for Art History 2021…
A Closer Look at Art | Techniques of Painting
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look at Art | Landscape
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look at Art | Christian Religious Painting
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look at Art | Mythological Painting
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look At Art | Portraiture
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Leonardo da Vinci
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…
An Introduction to Art
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
The Age of Undress: Neoclassicism, Fashion & “Living Statues”
In this blog, art historian Amelia Rauser places women at the centre of the traditionally “stoic” and “masculine”…
Yale Art Books – Looking Forward to 2020
For 2020 we look forward to a new list of beautiful, insightful art books from Yale University Press…
The Gauguin Atlas
Art historian Dr Linda Goddard characterises the identity of Paul Gauguin as both ‘carefully self-constructed’ and ‘constantly shifting’…