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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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Cleopatra’s Nose
How long was her nose, how dark was her skin? Representations of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, tell us more about the times such representations were made than the...
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Surrealism in Cinema, 100 Years On
When French writer and poet Andre Breton published the First Manifesto of Surrealism in October 1924, he sparked a movement that remains alive a century later. Most recently, this became evident from...
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Mining for European Art
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many European oil painters sought ways to depict scenes around them as accurately as possible, with attention to subtle color and the play of light on fabric...
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