Giovanni di Paolo’s Shimmering Worlds on Parchment and Panel
An exhibition highlights the creative genius of a Renaissance innovator.
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art history
Ancient Vase Presents a Who’s Who of the Underworld
Hades and its denizens crowd onto a 2,000-year-old Greek vase.
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What Does a Library Acquisitions Manager Do?
A behind-the-scenes look at receiving 2,000 volumes a month!
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The Style Pioneers of Photography on Paper
How French elites of the mid-1800s embraced paper photography as art.
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50 Years after the Flood, a Renaissance Painting Restored
Once thought a casualty of the 1966 Florentine flood, Vasari’s The Last Supper is back on view.
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How the Skull Is an Ally in Art
Bone-covered crypts and skulls as art.
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Different Places
The world travels of a pair of lidded bowls.
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Spinning the Story of the Wixárika Culture
Technicolor visions of the universe by Wixárika artists at the Fowler Museum.
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Did Artists in the Renaissance Know They Were in the Renaissance?
Did they know they were changing the course of art?
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What Was on the Other Side of This Painting?
One painting becomes two.
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What Are Japanese and Chinese Objects Doing in This French Aristocrat’s Bedroom?
Why are Asian objects tucked away in a 19th-century aristocrat’s bedroom?
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How Many People Have Drunk Out of This Glass?
The wine glass that wasn’t.
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