Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil” (1785) Oil on panel; 83.2 x 64.8 cm (32 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.) Johannes Vermeer had a serious thing for books. As it turns out, so did Edward ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

Combat is chaotic. Identifying friend from foe was critical in historical hand-to-hand fighting and continues to be so in the modern age. From the earliest standing militaries in the Middle East's ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

Carl Kahler’s 1891 painting My Wife’s Lovers just might be the most magnificent painting of cats in the history of art—and the story behind it is one incredible tail! The sumptuous portrait of 42 cats ...

Katherine Latey holds her piece, "The Condemnation Trial of Jeanne d'Arc." Latey researched the heroine during her HIST 301 class with Dr. Guerrerro. (Annabelle Jones) A BYU student is combining her ...