Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity itself. Images and artifact...

Explore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossa...

Trace the relationship between religion and art, which has inspired some of the most ingenious, affecting, majestic a...

See how advances in seafaring and a thirst for trade and exploration sent human beings around the planet. Distant and...

Travel east and west to explore the connections and rivalries between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires that ...

Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. But landscape painting is seldom a straigh...

Explore the story of light and color in art—both in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy. Journey fro...

Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology, and see how the “civilizing” project that arose from Enlighte...

Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change and consider the question: Should art create...