As preservationists grapple with crumbling monuments in Brazil and Peru, they’re also confronting the progressive agendas that originally shaped the buildings.

The French painter Edgar Degas was Impressionism’s most energetic and inventive frame designer.

The American artist brought the physical world into fashion photography in ways that were often unappreciated or unpredictable.

How does the medium in which an image is rendered, its materiality, shape our perception of the subject matter?

Need to clean your sixteenth-century distemper painting? Try a piece of bread (at your own risk).

When we examine the subject, foreground, and background of an image separately, the nuances of the scene emerge.

The men and women who tracked down looted art after WWII didn’t just go after stuff stolen by the Nazis. They also searched for treasures stolen by the Japanese. Sort of.

While some viewed photography as a competitor for their customers, Dutch portrait painters reaped the benefits of the emerging medium.

The designer’s impulse to convey his two selves to the public stemmed from a desire to be seen as genuine artist working in a world of artifice.

Developing visual literacy skills unlocks a means of understanding and engaging with the world that cannot be replaced by any text.