Dante adored her so much that he cast her as his guide in the Divine Comedy. But who was Beatrice Portinari?

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.

One of the best-known female architects to come out of Italy, Aulenti found fame with her transformation of a dated Parisian train station into the Musée d’Orsay.

Use this wide-ranging collection of stories about architecture, landscape, and design to fuel your imagination and your research interests.

Our editors have rounded up a collection of stories about art, artists, museums, and the way (and why) we study them.

On the centennial of the founding of Surrealism, this reading list examines its radical beginnings, its mass popularity, and its continued evolution.

The construction and expression of race by skin color literally became visible in Western art in the eighteenth century.

We take for granted the Titians and Botticellis that hang in galleries across the United States, little aware of the appetites and inclinations of those who acquired them.

The offbeat and unexpected Palazzo del Te, designed by Giulio Romano for Federigo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, has become an icon of Mannerist architecture.

The appearance of the vigilante crime fighter known as the Shadow in the writings of Plath, Kerouac, and Baraka reveals a twentieth-century duality.