Art & Art History

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.

Calder was known for both his delicately balanced kinetic sculptures and the massive steel abstractions he designed for public squares around the world.

More than a century ago, Charlotte Cushman presided over a group of queer female artists who supported one another’s creativity and left a pioneering, if overlooked, legacy.

Alexandre Lenoir’s Musée des monuments français, founded to protect French artifacts from the revolutionary mobs, was one of the first popular museums of Europe.

A symbol of resilience and resourcefulness, Lewis remains one of Canada’s best-loved and most-celebrated folk artists.

How has Afrofuturism supported the imagining of other worlds in the face of the anthropogenic climate crisis?

Little known outside of Singapore and Malaysia, Georgette Chen was an iconic artist of the Nanyang Style.

While Spanish Catholicism and reformatory Protestantism favored black clothing, much of the Renaissance happened in an explosion of color.

Without formal training as an architect, Gray created magnificent designs that sensitively blended traditional craft with a modern aesthetic.