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The artist Erin Lawlor recalls her time spent with the art historian, who wrote defining texts on artists such as Mark Rothko and offered critical support for the next generation
While researching a work of historical fiction, Carlo Vecce says he found a document signed by Leonardo da Vinci’s father implying his mother was an enslaved woman from the North Caucasus region
Scholars have pieced together separate parts of painting after 200 years
Red chalk preparatory work may be linked to “Worship of the Brazen Serpent” section of Vatican masterpiece
Expert in art and technology led the way in documenting the development of "virtual art"
The writer, curator and editor organised the influential Pictures exhibition and championed artist activism during the Aids crisis
Amid a wealth of events celebrating the bicentenary of John Ruskin’s birth we reconsider the breadth of his achievements. Plus, we talk to two experts in E.H. Gombrich. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Today, art history is increasingly being written by dealers and auctioneers to suit their own purpose
Birmingham Museums Trust takes the lead and places images in the public domain, but who will follow?
Princeton University's Theodore K. Rabb says more visual materials—not only written records—should be explored
Volume on pioneering curator takes an admiring, rather than a critically analytical, approach
A rich and fascinating book on what can rightly be called the art of philosophy
Noah Charney on the Sadnikar family's extremely personal collection in Slovenia
Heni Talks features videos from artists including Damien Hirst and Jeremy Deller
Her work straddles the territories of art and science, bugs and flowers
An open letter to Krakow institution asks for exhibition to counter rise of the right in Poland
When I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of 40 could identify the artist
She changed forever the way people thought about the mythology of artistic genius, and the masterpiece theatre version of art history
Her essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, changed the course of art history
He maintains his innocence
This account by the UK chairman of Sotheby’s is enthusiastic but superficial
Art historians go to court in France and the US to reclaim the research they say was stolen from them
A well-written history of art in North America for students
Richardson talks about his mentor and one time lover, Douglas Cooper—fiendish and funny art historian, aesthete and champion of Cubism
Federico Zeri, an independent mind
Palazzo Schifanoia displays archive material from the Warburg Institute to commemorate her work
A formidable connoisseur, academic and museum director who inspired many top figures in the British art world.
Professor Otto von Simson, the German art historian, died in Berlin at the end of May, aged 80.
