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See how art became the great interface when distant cultures met for the first time.
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Travel east and west— to Renaissance Italy and the contemporaneous Islamic empires.
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Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
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Explore how we look at the human body in art.
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Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in forging of humanity.
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Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in forging of humanity.
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Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology.
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Otto Dix and his generation had borne witness to the horrors of World War I.
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Goya bares witness to the irrational forces unleashed by Napoleon's invasion of Spain.
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For Renaissance art theorists, drawing always came before color.
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Ukiyo-e demonstrated that every day transitory objects could be considered art.
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In Li Cheng's landscape art escapes the natural world.
