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What the Shadow Says
The mid-twentieth-century writers Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, and Amiri Baraka may not have much in common in terms of subject matter or writing style. But, as literary scholar Erik Mortenson writes,...
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Lessons in Mannerism at the Palazzo del Te
“Mannerist architecture is architecture that was strange then and is now.” This was just one of the thoughts Robert Venturi shared in a lecture on architectural history and design given to the Royal...
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How Renaissance Art Found Its Way to American Museums
Madame X, The Consummation of Empire, and The Andes of Ecuador are all considered examples of great American art, but there was little appreciation for these works (or the artists who made them) at the...
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Painting Race
The defining of race by skin color becomes visible in European art of the long eighteenth century (c. 1688–1815). It was during that time that “art, natural history, nascent anthropology, aesthetics,...
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Surrealism at 100: A Reading List
On October 15, 1924, French poet André Breton published his Manifeste du surréalisme, arguing for a new form of literary creation that would unlock the subconscious. He defined Surrealism as “pure...
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JSTOR Daily’s Archives of Art History
Over the past decade, our writers and editors have shared dozens of stories, research summaries, and reading lists on the history of art. We’ve covered individual artists, movements and manifestos,...
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The Ins and Outs of Architecture
A fan of Frank Lloyd Wright? Or maybe fascist architecture? Do you love ancient Greek orders, or do you prefer your buildings to simply gesture toward the classical past (we’re looking at you,...
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Gae Aulenti: An Independent, International Architect
Born Gaetana Emilia Aulenti in the northern Italian municipality of Palazzolo dello Stella on December 4, 1927, Gae Aulenti would become one of the most celebrated female architects and designers to...
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Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics
Most people consider the introduction of the Funny Pages in the late nineteenth century as the birthday of the “modern” American comic strip. Alex Beringer is not most people. A literary historian and...
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Becoming Beatrice
She was the great love of the Early Renaissance Italian poet Dante Alighieri. He adored her so much that he cast her as his divine guide to the celestial spheres of heaven in the last book of the...
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