11 stories tagged art-history, newest first.
107 points by surprisetalk | 30 comments
The Last Museum is a website offering semantic search across millions of artworks from major museums, with filters by date range, artists, and cultures.
45 points by hoffmannesque | 4 comments
Engelsberg Ideas essay on James Wall Finn, a little-known decorative painter whose murals adorn Gilded Age Manhattan interiors like the NYPL Rose Main Reading Room.
129 points by jasontr | 57 comments
An interactive art history museum built from Wikipedia data, showing artists and art movements on a zoomable timeline gallery wall and a star map view.
40 points by bookofjoe | 9 comments
Priceonomics article about an art forger, likely Han van Meegeren, who sold fake Vermeers to the Nazis and became regarded as a national hero.
129 points by CharlesW | 24 comments
Animation Obsessive newsletter article explaining the visual design and background art style of the classic Looney Tunes short 'What's Opera, Doc?', plus animation news.
349 points by bookofjoe | 165 comments
Open Culture article about Michelangelo's first known painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony, made when he was 12 or 13 years old.
576 points by bensouthwood | 274 comments
A Works in Progress essay arguing that modern reconstructions of painted classical statues misrepresent how the ancient originals were actually colored.
321 points by amatheus | 72 comments
A 2019 Medium post by Bruno Postle about the perspective technique used in Giovanni Battista Piranesi's architectural etchings; the page had not loaded.
456 points by bookofjoe | 52 comments
A 2017 Paris Review blog post by Sarah Cowan on Wacław Szpakowski's maze-like geometric drawings made from single continuous lines.
386 points by ColinWright | 97 comments
Open Culture article announcing that the medieval illuminated manuscript the Book of Kells has been digitized and made freely viewable online.
348 points by board | 241 comments
Wikipedia article on Rhythm 0, Marina Abramović's 1974 six-hour performance in Naples where the audience could use 72 objects on her as they wished.